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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!”
80 Restaurants, Wineries, Breweries, Cocktails and More. Dancing Under the Stars. Need I say more? Sunday Supper in the Market is this Sunday, August 15. For more info click here. Filed under: Events, Food, Restaurants Tagged: Pike Place Mark (read full article)
No joke. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. While I’m in Paris with my Mom and my sister Kate, Jim is in Ireland with his two girls. I know he told me his itinerary more than once, and while I admit I didn’t pay too much atte (read full article)
It was 8:15 a.m. when we pulled into the parking lot across from our hotel to wait for the police escort to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As I triple checked that we had our tickets, pit passes and parking pass, Jim chatted with some of the (read full article)
The morning of the Indy 500 dawned early for Jim and me – we had an 8:30 am police escort to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to catch. I breakfasted responsibly at the hotel with a bowl of oatmeal but with a 1:12 pm race time, concessions at t (read full article)
One of my favorite parts of Indy 500 weekend is “Carb Day.” Carb Day is the final practice session for the Indy 500. It’s the time to make sure the car is running exactly the way you want it, that pit stops are clean and fast a (read full article)
Yesterday was Jim’s b’day. Unlike me, Jim is not a b’day fan. While I like being Queen for a Day, he wants his birthday low-key and to forget it’s happening (although he’s fine celebrating after the usual day). (read full article)
Yes, You Can Get Thai at the Ballpark. I don’t know about you, but baseball season to me means: sunny afternoons, the lazy days of summer, hot roasted peanuts, and . . . Thai food. As there is nothing I love more than a mid-week nig (read full article)
Today is World Water Day and so it is a perfect day to contemplate one of the biggest things we in the US, Canada and Western Europe, take for granted – clean, safe drinking water. Most days I don’t think about the fact that I can fill (read full article)
International Women’s Day is today. The non-Hallmark holiday is “a day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.” And boy do we have cause to celebrate . . (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)
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)
The last Olympic event Jim and I attended was the Finland v. Belarus hockey game. We picked it because of my Finnish heritage and because tickets were available Utilizing Craig’s list we scored tickets at face value, 10 rows from the (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)
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)
My most vivid memories of my grandmother are of her baking bread on the weekends while listening to whatever opera was being broadcast on the radio that day. The first opera I ever saw performed live was Puccini’s La Boheme at the Dor (read full article)
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