While the rest of the United States was sizzling due to record-setting heatwaves during the summer of 2025, the city of San Francisco seemed confused about what month it was. It resembled January and February more than June and July. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the first two months of “summer” in the ... read more >
Last year, our book club read a book written by Terry McMillan, which felt like catching up with an old girlfriend because I haven’t read a Terry McMillan book in years! Yes, the author of Disappearing Acts, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the classic Waiting to Exhale is still writing and still writing ... read more >
In the summer of 2024, my mother passed away after a brief illness. Her death came as a shock to our family, and for days after, I was numb while racked with feelings of guilt, sadness, anger, and overwhelm. I set an intention to deal with the grief around her death. I did not want ... read more >
The common theme of the 2020s is being overwhelmed. To say that the decade of the 2020s started with tremendous overwhelm is an UNDERSTATEMENT. A pandemic, economic distress, societal upheaval, economic uncertainty, political chaos, natural disasters, and numerous world conflicts are all overwhelming on their own, but to have them all happen simultaneously is overwhelming. ... read more >
We need to turn up the music again. I was at the hair salon, and we were listening to some classic 80s and 90s jams. We reminisced on the songs that took us back to the days of house parties and nightclubs. As we smiled at the memory of our younger days, one of the ... read more >
Facial Skincare Murad Vitamin C Line I like to use this line in the summertime because I believe Vitamin C can help prevent skin damage, especially in the summertime. Yes, I know it doesn't crack but sun damage can turn it into a California Raisin as well. This line is especially good for those of ... read more >
Plant-Based Finds I am not plant-based and I don't do fake meats or soy but I do like some of the newer plant-based products. Just Egg Just Egg is a plant-based Egg Substitute made of mung beans. I've been curious about this product ever since I heard an ad for it on one of my ... read more >
Nutrition Tips and Finds The link between smartphones and Poor Eating Habits According to findings presented by Korea University researchers at a 2021 virtual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, teens who spend more than 2 hours a day on their smartphones are less likely to eat fruits and vegetables, compared with those who ... read more >
Long after our hopes were dashed of a quick end to the 2020 Pandemic, I remember talking to people about what I was most looking forward to doing when the restrictions were loosened. When vaccinations started to increase and restrictions began to loosen in California, I expected to have a full social calendar but that ... read more >
"More is not better. Better is better. Do it Better before you do MORE" I used to say this a lot when I taught fitness classes because I could see that many people believed that in order to make progress faster, they would need to keep doing more and more. It's true in exercise that ... read more >
