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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!”
Help Fight Breast Cancer! Finding a cure for breast cancer has always been important to me. Initially, maybe it was because I was a woman and had breasts. Maybe it was because it seems we really can find a cure. I’m not sure why I was (read full article)
So, January is officially over, and it’s time to assess how I’ve done on my New Year’s resolutions so far. Since the Candida Diet scuttled my dietary resolutions, I’m focusing on the others: Fitness, French and Spirit. Fitn (read full article)
Coastal Kitchen The outpouring of funds and fundraising efforts to provide relief to Haiti has been omnipresent lately. This not only greatly helps the Haitian survivors and hopefully makes recovery more manageable, but it also provides those p (read full article)
I spent last night after work at the Happy Hour for Hope at the Copper Cart Cafe in Belltown. No, I wasn’t throwing caution to the wind and drinking in disregard of the candida diet, I was there as a volunteer for Puget Sound Susan G. Komen f (read full article)
The first week of 2010 has certainly been interesting! It’s also been fun (amazingly) and challenging to start work on my resolutions. I haven’t been 100% on everything, but I haven’t done too badly either. In the name of acc (read full article)
In the “Spirit” category, my 2010 New Year’s Resolution is to give back more. Last night I made a commitment that will ensure this resolution is fulfilled. For the second year I am serving on the Puget Sound Susan G. Komen Race (read full article)
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