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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!”
My week without sugar challenge has finally come to an end. I made it all the way through with only 1 tiny slip-up in the form of a total 1/2 teaspoon of honey I ate with some amazing cheese at Matt’s at the Market Friday night, before rememb (read full article)
Here’s the thing, I know that strength training is HUGELY beneficial and that you’re supposed to get at least 2 sessions in per week, but weight-lifting is very, very, very boring to me and I’m remedial at it at best. So I’v (read full article)
My nutritionist suspects that I may have a slight sugar addiction. She came to this conclusion when she read my food journal and noticed that I tend to eat sugar in the form of cookie dough, cookies or chocolate 3 times a day. Personally, as it (read full article)
The Dreaded Scale Confession: My entry into dieting was at 13. By age 14, I knew how to drop 5 pounds in 3 days by eating nothing but apples, oranges, and 3 eggs per day. At age 15 I tried my first liquid diet – I lasted 5 days (read full article)
Last summer I was with a friend going to lunch (she was driving) when we were rear-ended – hard. The effects on my body were instantaneous – severe neck and back pain radiating to my legs. The next several months were spent in Dr. (read full article)
My three weeks on the Candida Diet is officially over. For three weeks and two days, I underwent the Candida diet to attempt to “de-yeast” my system and bring my “gut” back into neutral alignment (charming, I know). What t (read full article)
Tennis Anyone? It’s been drilled into us by now that we need to exercise, exercise, exercise - at least if we want to lead healthy, active lives beyond the age of 50. While “live fast, die young” was an attractive – if not (read full article)
Maybe I’m a wimp, but I’m not taking well to the Candida Diet. Yes, you can eat all the protein (aka meat) and veggies you want but I’m a grain girl, and brown rice alone doesn’t cut it. Maybe its genetic. My sister Jen, (read full article)
After bingeing on sweets and pasta for three days – including a send-off meal of a baguette from Le Panier accompanied by triple crème brie, Gruyère, Cougar Gold and Jack William Wines Ode to Joy Cabernet Sauvignon - I started the Candi (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)
Foods Forbidden on the Candida Diet I realized yesterday that my kitchen is just not prepared for this candida diet overhaul I’m about to embark on. So I decided I would phase into it with an official all out start date of Monday. Acco (read full article)
Having been put on medication after medication last year until I was finally at a daily total of 6 (7 if you consider I have to take one twice a day) and still not feeling 100%, I decided to try natural medicine. One of the massage therapists I (read full article)
Waiting for a conference call to start (who schedules 8 am conference calls???) that will tie me up most of the morning until I head to my first ever appointment with a naturopath. Hoping for some answers that don’t involve more meds (already (read full article)
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