I’m a New Yorker who grew up in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. From the time I could walk, I spent every winter break visiting my grandparents in NYC and traipsing on my Grandma Claire’s heels through the streets of 1980s Manhattan. With each visit, the city seeped deeper into my blood and I couldn’t shake it.

In 1994 I came up for good – to study theater and creative writing, and to eventually star on SNL. Instead, I fell down the “day job” rabbit hole and ended up on a different trajectory as a business lady in the big city. The closest I’ve ever come to Studio 1A is an office in 75 Rockefeller Plaza from which I convinced myself I could see Lorne Michael’s executive corner windows.

I live in Brooklyn (of course), with my handsome architect husband (naturally). We have a cat called Henry (the architect doesn’t care for dogs), and I’m enjoying a successful career in the niche world of FinTech marketing. I like my career and I’m good at it, but I can only spend so many hours in a day thinking, writing and talking about it before my friends’ eyes start to glaze over and I stop getting invited to dinner parties.

So Kikki Living is my chance to unplug from my professional world and muse about everything else I see, hear, eat, drink and do in my beloved NYC, across the country or around the world – high brow here, low brow there, and everything in between.

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