Last week was my 40th birthday. I turned the big 4-0. I feel like a rebellious teenager, full of dreams and ideas, yet not quite old enough to be responsible for making all these grown-up decisions. How did I get to be 40 so quickly? I had the best time in my 30′s and I don’t mind being 40. The fine lines and wrinkles. All of it, I wear ( Read more... )

We had a fabulous time with wonderful friends for New Year’s Eve. The six of us adults laughed until we cried. It was so much fun and it was the first time in more than 7 years that we celebrated the new year with other adults. We had a beer tasting. We had good food. We played games. We laughed and laughed some more. I can’t remember a New ( Read more... )

Watching the events unfold in the news over the past 24 hours has left me raw with emotion. How in the hell can something so evil be happening so often in our schools? Much like the vivid details of the morning of September 11th that is freshly imprinted my brain, in all likelihood, these images won’t soon leave my consciousness.

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It is the holiday season again already. It is difficult to believe we are already nearly done with 2012. One of my favorite things about the holidays is getting a family photo of the three of us and getting our holiday cards out. In years past, I have designed my own, but I have fallen in love with the designs that Tiny Prints offers, year after ( Read more... )

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We got back from our trip to BlogHer and our Tour d’East Coast two weeks ago now. It was an exciting adventure and like any fabulous vacation, I am glad to be home, sweet home, savoring the memories. The BlogHer conference was a letdown this year; I am very disappointed to say. It was disorganized. It was chaotic. It was crowded. It was ( Read more... )

I love the Olympics. I always have. I remember when I was a little girl, my dad would tell me I could be in the Olympics because I would be great in the Equestrian events. He may have been delusional, but when I went horseback riding while the 1984 Olympic games were happening in Los Angeles, I would pretend like I was an Olympic rider. I would ( Read more... )

A little less than two years ago, I went to a pre-BlogHer meet-up with other local San Diego bloggers. I was nervous about going to the meet-up. I was nervous about my first time at BlogHer. I had been blogging for more than five years at that point and had few meet-ups with friends I had met online. For me, meeting people from online “ ( Read more... )

It was 1994 and I turned twenty-one in June that year. I was working at Red Lobster, which my co-workers affectionately called the Red Dumpster. For my twenty-first birthday, the girls I worked with promised to rock my world with a wild birthday celebration. They teased me for weeks about how my birthday present would have batteries and in my ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my first day back to Adventure Boot Camp. I have done this boot camp before and loved it to pieces. The trouble is that it is really expensive. I tried to do-it-yourself boot camp and I was not as successful or as consistent as I thought I would be on my own. Which, of course is the reason I enlisted the help of Mamavation to whip ( Read more... )