Last week was a happy blur.... It was a whirlwind week, full of meetings, client deadlines, writing, workouts, dancing, time with friends. It would have been easy, with all the looming deadlines, to just work, work, work. To forget to play. Or to rest. Now, let me clarify that I did not ...
If you ask me if heaven is where we go after we die, I will say no, heaven is now, it is where I have been this past weekend, gliding across an open expanse of hardwood floor, blues music reverberating throughout the room, lights turned down low, feeling the soul groove, dancing in the arms of a han ...
Ízletes! That’s Hungarian for delicious, and that was my Saturday night – enjoying Hungarian pastries including Dobos Torta, a nine-layer confection made with alternating layers of sponge cake and chocolate buttercream and topped with hard caramel, and Rétes, a nut pastry made with laye ...
“I want to be able to keep making people open their eyes. I think we all want to change the world, and I can’t do it with a magic spell but I do think I can do it one line at a time.” That’s bestselling author Jodi Picoult on writing. She’s a master storyteller, and her novels tackle t ...
I have spent the past three gorgeous days in the city of my heart, San Francisco. I flew here last Friday so I could attend a workshop with my writing coach on Saturday morning. I'd completed the next milestone for my book - 100 pages! 100 pages feels significant. I'd never written anythin ...
When I first moved to San Francisco in July 2005, I was drawn like a moth to the lights, people, energy and Bohemian roots of North Beach. This is San Francisco’s Little Italy, and it is where the Beat poets had lived and spouted out their poems, words tumbling out hot and urgent, creating shocki ...
Today I have been dancing around my kitchen while singing along to La Camisa Negra by Juanes, one of my favorite songs (I danced to it in the pouring rain on a warm summer night while celebrating Christmas in Argentina...). Because I was working from home, and didn’t feel like leaving the hou ...
She wore a blue silk suit and arranged the bouquets herself. He looked boyish, grinning ear-to-ear, holding his new bride’s hand. Everyone agreed that she was glowing. They danced to their favorite song, Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade. She was a modern woman, and she had married a younger ...
Have you ever experienced the sense that the sky is endless – blue skies curving to meet the horizon all around you, surrounded by 360 degrees of sky, spilling over to the edges of the world - and just known that life is full of infinite possibilities? I awoke into that space the other day. ...
I love the enchanted world after a fresh snowfall: the rounded shapes and smooth lines, roofs, car, bushes and trees blanketed in white, no sharp edges left. Everything is softened, made new again. I still feel like a young girl when I go sledding, shrieking my fool head off as I laugh my wa ...
2009 was full of adventures for me: surfing in Costa Rica; celebrating Christmas in Argentina where I have danced night after night until sunrise, one night dancing in the pouring rain to Brazilian bossa nova; attending President Obama's inauguration, and partying at one of the official balls where ...
It´s a Christmas miracle. This year, I´m celebrating a sunny Christmas in the midst of summertime in Argentina, far away from my home in snowy upstate New York where the current temperature is 30 degrees Fahrenheit. (Brrrrrrrr!) Here it is 86 degrees and breezy. I am staying at my siste ...
As the year draws to a close, I think about all the dreams I have pursued since January. One dream didn’t map out due to timing. One dream fell apart when a boyfriend's ex-wife stepped back into the picture. And one dream was brought back to life. A Dream Revived It has been a li ...
I stay motivated to take the steps needed to live my dream when I remember my “worst job” of all time. I was fresh out of college, working as a temp. I’d been placed at a manufacturing company where I did data entry. The company manufactured items for public bathrooms: wall partitions, ...
It always amazes me how the Christmas decorations start going up the day after Thanksgiving. I am simply not that organized or ambitious when it comes to holiday décor. Yet I enjoy the spectacle of lights on trees, porches, doorframes, and the candles in every window at some traditionally decor ...
