I’ve always been intrigued by Volcanoes. As a child I read The 21 Balloons by William Pène du Bois about an oddball misanthrope who after leaving San Francisco in a hot air balloon is rescued at sea 3 weeks later among the wreckage of a platform that had been held aloft by 21 balloons. The story he … Read more
This week I did the #WeighFast Two-Day Detox By #WeightNot and lost 4.5 lbs. I was excited to try it because I’ve been feeling the need to jumpstart my healthy eating and fitness program. It’s been a bumpy road the past few years with sports injuries keeping me from being as active as I’d like, … Read more
We can complain all we want about Facebook reach and algorithms, but it is still the #1 social media platform, and as bloggers, we need to maintain a presence there. In the past year or so I’ve found that the majority of my time on the platform is spent in Facebook groups. Find Your Tribe … Read more
A New Normal Offspring and I use Facetime or Skype nearly every day to keep in touch with family and friends. It has been part of her life since the day she was born because she was born in California and her father was living in Guatemala for the first four months of her life. Her … Read more
Where We Are We’ve been in BC for a year. Does that mean we live here now? It made sense to enroll Offspring in Kindergarten up here, but all year long she told people, “We live in California. We’re just visiting here.” At the end of the year she attended a ceremony where the handful of … Read more
I collect quotes. I have pages and pages of them. These are a few of the long ones I love. “Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast … Read more
Photos from the 4 years I spent in the Bahamas and South Beach Miami while cooking on the Sea Fever, a liveaboard dive boat. We spent most of the season running dive charters, but spent the summer months snorkeling with wild Spotted Dolphins on the Little Bahama Bank. It was a magical time. The Bahamas got … Read more
This gluten free Monkey Bread recipe is one of our favorite gluten free treats to bake together. It’s fun for little hands to prepare, and even more fun to tear apart when it’s ready to eat. Why is it called Monkey Bread? It wasn’t always called that. It originated as a Hungarian coffee cake called … Read more