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I was once asked who my role models were. After careful thought, I disclosed my list:
Wonder Woman because she’s smart, refreshingly unjaded, fights the good fight and looks gorgeous while doing it. Plus, bracelets that deflect bullets? That girl knows how to accessorize. Lara Croft: smart, sexy, and kicks a**. Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? for knowing how to work it while keeping her priorities straight (she marries Roger Rabbit because he makes her laugh). Top of the list though, always, is Auntie Mame (the title character from the book by Patrick Dennis). Auntie Mame is vibrant, charming, intellectually curious, open to all people and experiences, and always the life of the party. Her motto is “Live, Live, Live” and that is what this blog is about.
As Auntie Mame so famously says, “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!”
Too many of us have become those starving suckers. We are stuck in a rut of waking up, working all day, coming home, watching TV and going to sleep, just to wake up and do it all again. We may add a workout to the routine, take-out, a night out, or a movie, but most of our time is spent in the same boring patterns. It’s time to stop going hungry!
This blog is about living, evolving, indulging and doing what we can every day to get the most out of life.
Food will be featured heavily because I love it. I do not subscribe to the “food is fuel’ school of thought. I believe in the smell of homemade bread and chocolate chip cookies, the delight a tiny taste of triple crème brie can tempt forth, and the sensuality of a creamy chocolate mousse. Whoever said “nothing tastes as good as thin feels” never tasted fresh chevre topped with black cherry confit. Food provides nourishment, comfort, creativity, and a fail proof way to connect with others. It’s time to stop obsessing and start enjoying.
Another way to really experience life? Travel. Whether it’s in your hometown or immersed in another culture half a world away, nothing will breathe new energy into your life faster than a get away.
Most of all though, this is about finding ways to steal little moments out of even the busiest day to enjoy and experience life. Let’s get to it and “Live, Live, Live!”
On Saturday, Jim and I planned to lay low and take it easy as the next two weekends we’ll be traveling. At about 3pm, we called some friends to see if they were up for pizza, wine and games night and they responded that they were on the road (read full article)
The 2010 Olympic Games started off inauspiciously with the tragic death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luge slider. That same night, at the Opening Ceremonies, the hydraulics of the torch failed leaving the torch inside BC Place missin (read full article)
Jim just finished editing the 500+ photos he took of our Winter Olympic adventure in Vancouver to a “more manageable” 80 or so. Here are some highlights: The Olympic Cauldron Speed Skating Ski Jump Men&# (read full article)
Michael Buble There I was, minding my own business, my first full day in Vancouver, when who comes walking toward me with an unlit Olympic torch, but Michael Buble. Of course, at the time I had no idea who he was. I also was unaware of his a (read full article)
Part of the fun at the Olympics this past week was exploring the culinary scene. On Monday we headed to Richmond for Speed Skating (more on that later) and Chinese food. When we asked for recommendations we were told that “every Chinese res (read full article)
Jim’s sister and brother-in-law joined us in Vancouver today for our last 4 days at the Olympics. We started our day (at 12:30 pm) at the Winking Judge Pub for some beer and a roast beef dip. It was good solid bar food. We then braved Gra (read full article)
Yesterday we took a break from Olympic events to scout out the town and engage in the unofficial Olympic event of eating and drinking (it’s a biathlon of sorts). Vancouver has amazing restaurants and tons of diversity, so I’ve been l (read full article)
It was estimated that 3 billion people watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics on TV. We were 2 of them. This of course, was not our original plan. Tickets for Opening Ceremonies were not sold out. However, at $1,100 per ti (read full article)
Some People Can Fly The very first event of Winter Olympics 2010 was Men’s individual ski jumping and we were there. We started our day at 3:45 am, yes 3:45 am. At 4:45 we caught a cab to the BC Institute of Technology in Burnaby to catch a (read full article)
Last week Jo wrote an interesting post about the law of attraction. Those of you who have read “The Secret” are probably pretty familiar with this concept, which is essentially that good thoughts attract good things and bad thoughts att (read full article)
For those of us on the south side of the border, the 2010 Winter Olympics have been a pipe dream because, with most of the hotels reserved for press and officials, etc., accommodations are nearly impossible to find. For Christmas, Jim surprised (read full article)
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