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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!”
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)
Heineken Holland House Last week during our Olympic odyssey, we had the chance to partake in one of the best events going at the Olympics – Heineken House (Irish House was another best and we hear Germany house was pretty amazing but didn (read full article)
It was a jam-packed day on the ice today. With USA victories and disappointments. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. Yesterday, I took advantage of the lululemon and YYoga gift of yoga and tried my first hot yoga class. The great thing abo (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)
So the post I was planning to write today about Tom Douglas’s restaurant Lola will have to wait because it looks like we are heading up to Vancouver today instead of tomorrow. In another amazing karma turn, the woman we are renting the condo (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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