This past month, my husband and I totally rearranged our house. We sectioned off our large dining room to create an eating area and a TV nook, and converted our little-used den into a home gym for me, which means my treadmill no longer lives in the garage. This has turned out to be [...]

“My body is my temple. My body isn’t a discount body. Just because something is cheap or free doesn’t mean I need to eat it, especially if I know it’ll do me more harm than good.”                                        [...]

Wow! I can’t believe it’s a new year already! It’s seems like just a few days ago that I was ringing in 2008! And what a year 2008 was! I traveled to Singapore and Bali twice, and also visited Thailand, D.C., and just came home from a fabulous trip to Hawaii! I also quit a [...]

Are you familiar with fitness celebrity Tosca Reno? She’s a Canadian fitness model who used to be an overweight housewife. About 10 years ago she revamped her diet and fitness routine, and pioneered her “Eat Clean” diet. She has published several books about the diet, and has a regular column in Oxygen magazine. It also [...]

The reason that I haven’t been posting lately is that I’ve been out of the country, traveling in South East Asia with my family. Anyhoo, while I was in Singapore, my mother and I attended the Holistic Wellness Weekend at Fort Canning park. There were a variety of vendors at the festival, but the one [...]

After having blond hair all summer (and hair above my shoulders for nearly 3 years), I’m ready for a change. My hair is naturally wavy, so I want to let it grow long and just curl a little bit. It’s all part of my new hippie aesthetic. As for color, I want something pretty low [...]