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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!”
Last year Jim and I were invited to our friends’ sister’s wedding in India. We were also invited to stay with our friends’ parents in Delhi for the festivities. We quickly fell in love with them and can’t wait to catch (read full article)
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)
For one of my Christmas presents, Jim planned us a weekend get-away to Port Townsend and the Olympic Peninsula. After our initial dates didn’t work out, we rescheduled for this past weekend, for a little catch-up time after our 3-weeks apart (read full article)
If you like food and you’re going to Paris there are two sources everyone will recommend, Hungry for Paris by Alec Lobrano and David Liebovitz‘s blog “living the sweet life in Paris.” While in Paris, they were my form of a (read full article)
I was surprised to discover that Wine Spectator has bestowed awards upon 27 Seattle restaurants. 27, as in 2 more than Los Angeles. What really surprised me though was who was on the list and who wasn’t. Check out the full list here in my (read full article)
While there’s nothing I like more than making a Bolognese sauce from scratch – except for cheese – I just don’t have the hours required for this endeavor during the week. For instance, on Monday night I left work at 6:15 (read full article)
Hi Everyone: I am excited to announce that I am officially writing restaurant reviews and food themed articles for Examiner.com. The Iron Chef battle between Seattle’s Chef Hines and the seemingly unbeatable Iron Chef Morimoto is the subje (read full article)
Bastille Day has been a favorite holiday of mine for years even though I’m not French and I don’t live in France. Nonetheless, growing up, Bastille Day meant amazing rowdy brunches at French Bistros. Pain perdu anyone? Once Jim and I (read full article)
While Sarah is Out and About exploring All Things Parisian, I decided to have a Girls-Night-In for the East Coast OC. The last five weeks have been tough from a cooking standpoint, as I completely broke my finger and have been sporting casts, pins, (read full article)
It’s Jen again…As I mentioned in my last post, working in the restaurant industry came out of necessity, as Sarah and I both worked hard to pay our own ways through college. Hard work is one trait that was pounded into both of us at a y (read full article)
Our flight to Paris left LAX at 9:45 pm (about half an hour behind schedule). We arrived a little over 10 hours later at 5:00 pm Paris time (9 hours ahead of the West Coast). I was extremely thankful that I had “splurged” and used more mi (read full article)
While Sarah’s in Paris, I’m taking on the challenge of Guest Blogger for the next few weeks. So while Sarah posts from Paris, I’ll be providing news from the states in the form of recipes, entertaining tips and more. As it turns out Sarah and (read full article)
Shortly before I left on my 10 day “tour” of California, I found out that my friend Jen was going to be in Sonoma the same time as me. Jen and I went to college together at good ole UC Santa Barbara, but she now lives in the land of Dis (read full article)
New restaurants have been popping up in Orange County’s South Coast Plaza like mad recently. And they haven’t been typical food court fare either. After the introduction of a Charlie Palmer restaurant and Anqi by Crustacean, an upscale Asian (read full article)
My trips back to the OC are a whirlwind of work – lunch with friends – work dinner with friends – work lunch with friends – rinse and repeat. My first night in town I headed to the Crow Bar and Kitchen in Corona del Mar to meet up with Marita (read full article)
Besides Churchill Downs there was one more thing we wanted to find in Louisville – a good place for dinner. Jim had done a bit of internet research and it looked like the Highlands neighborhood was a safe bet for a dining excursion. The fir (read full article)
While still a yoga novice, I’ve practiced pilates for over a year, so I know the standard admonition not to eat anything 2 hours before class. Friday night I made plans to meet a friend at the 9 am Hot Hatha class Saturday morning. Since I (read full article)
The day between Carb Day and the Indy 500, we decided to spend exploring part of Indiana. Before we left on our trip we consulted “1000 Places to See – in the USA and Canada – Before You Die,” cross-checked it with an online search and (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)
We decided to follow Carb Day with a night out in Indy. Our destination was the Fountain Square neighborhood for Thai at Siam Square and Duckpin Bowling at Atomic Bowl. We had heard and read that Fountain Square was a restored and gentrified (read full article)
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