Blog – Tagged "Life" – Page 3

The Morning Quiet

I am a good sleeper. I go to bed early, usually no later than 9:30pm (and I consider this late), and I wake up between 5:00-6:00am. Rarely do I eve...

Stars Selling Skin Care

I don’t know how she landed in my Instagram feed the other day, but there she was. In her bathrobe, hair up in a terry turban, makeup-less face, ta...

A bookself, packed with books and various objects like candlesticks, small statues, and vases.

Surrounded by Books

(written at a time when my Grandfather was still alive, but adapted a bit since his passing in 2021) When I used to visit my grandparent’s house, t...

Grief and Loss

There is no time limit on grief. These words came to me on my 31st birthday four months after my 25 year old brother had died from cancer. My belo...

How To Correct Mask Face

Masks have come off. Our skin can finally breathe and so can we. What I am seeing is two years of mask face, though— clogging, blemishes, redness. ...

A Wake Up Call

On my birthday this year, March 15th, I jumped into the Atlantic Ocean. I am not sure what the pull was that seemed to command this cold plunge, bu...

Mother's Day Gifts (Not What You Think)

Inundated with emails about the best Mother’s Day Gifts? What to buy to tell the mothers in your lives that they are “the best mother ever?” As muc...

Happy Mother's Day

My new book, Life Cycling, is filled with short glimpses into the many moving parts of female life, from my perspective anyway. Menopause, Dieting,...

Rock and Roll

When I was growing up, rock and roll was THE MUSIC. Led Zeppelin belting out Stairway to Heaven for that glorious eight minutes. Lynyrd Skynyrd sin...

Spring Time Clean

The other day, I hired my favorite organizer, Lisa Griffith, to come over to my business and help give me a fresh perspective on where to put all o...

Two women, standing in front of East Bay Food Pantry. One woman smiling and holding a book with her picture on it. The other smiling holding a check. Text on the side of the picture that reads "I. like charitable people".

I Like Charitable People

Many years ago when books on tape first started hitting the market, I purchased one from the Queen of beautiful voices, Maya Angelou. Some writers ...

Gardening Delight

As soon as the first sighting of a bright red cardinal shows up in my line of vision in the tree in my backyard, I am ready for some seed planting....