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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!”
I came home from Paris to a note from my friend Jules alerting us to a bee infestation in our downstairs bathroom wall. Hesitant, I opened the door to the bathroom, turned on the light and was met with corpses – on the rug, on the tile, in th (read full article)
Graduating as an English major with no idea of what I wanted to be when I grew up that was guaranteed to provide the financial stability my family wanted for me (actress and writer were not lucrative careers in their eyes), I followed in the footstep (read full article)
Finally, the identities of the mystery celebs from Thursday’s post are revealed: How many did you get right? Filed under: Misc. Tagged: Celebrities, Jeremy Renner, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Rupert Boneham, Survivor (read full article)
While strolling along the track on race day at the Indy 500, we had the chance to encounter quite a few “celebrities.” Do you know who these people are? I’ll give you a few hints. Mystery Celebs 1, 4 and 5 are reality show ̶ (read full article)
As I waited for my lunch to heat up in the microwave (leftover pasta from last night) at work, I caught a few soundbites from “Rick’s List” on CNN. Rick was discussing the fact that after women did “well” in the prim (read full article)
If you check in with me regularly, you know I travel, quite a bit. For work, for fun, for work. For work, I rotate between my office, office in Seattle, my office at home, my laptop, my company’s office in Orange County, Cali and my company (read full article)
On Friday, I gathered up my coat, bag and purse, shut down my computer and headed to the elevator. Another person from my floor was already waiting and in true American fashion we studiously ignored each other. An elevator arrived and we stepped (read full article)
Ah yes, that day is here for all Americans – the day of reckoning with the IRS. For those lucky enough to receive refunds you’ve probably already filed your taxes and today is just another day. For the rest of us, it’s a day of fran (read full article)
I generally start off my weekday morning with a grande Yogi Super Antioxidant tea and my email (yes, the excitement never stops in my office). The Yogi tea bags always have some little quote or aphorism on them, most of which are pretty straight f (read full article)
Coming back from vacation is always incredibly hard for me. When Jim and I came back from our month-long excursion to India and Paris last year, I cried the minute we entered the house. Returning from Vancouver and our amazing 8 days at the Ol (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)
I am super inconsistent with regards to making New Year’s resolutions. I am consistent about breaking them when I do make them, however. This year is going to be different, though, I can just feel it I’ll need your help in the upcom (read full article)
A comment on Kath’s post yesterday about finding a baby roach in her home sent me straight down memory lane . . . After graduating college and taking the obligatory year off (no I wasn’t spoiled, I graduated college a year early and spent (read full article)
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