Happy Friday! Only 17 shopping days left until Christmas and 4 until Hanukkah. First a reflection on 2017 2017 has been a great year. I’ve met more and more lovely people doing lovely things – following their dreams and making positive changes in their lives and the lives of others both human and animal. It has been a time for...
Happy Monday! I forgot to include a wonderful – super easy – mushroom gravy recipe from Isa Chandra Moscowitz’s cookbook The Super Fun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook in my last post. I went to a pre-Thanksgiving party this past Saturday and made this gravy to go along with my mashed potatoes. I was rushing around to get everything done and made...
Happy Sunday! I’m writing this post early considering the Thanksgiving holiday this week and the fact that many of us are preparing the menu for this day of over-eating and elastic waistbands. Surprisingly, Thanksgiving is one of the best days for the veggie-inclined eaters like me. I did not realize until I stopped eating Turkey nearly 30 years ago that...
Happy Friday! I babysat for my two month old goddaughter (I am one of 3 ‘goddess godmammas’ to this sweet girl!) for the first time recently. It had been a while since I had the responsibility of keeping a little being happy and feeling safe. The moment I put her down, she let me know that was NOT ok. I...
Happy Friday! My super fabulous successful sister sends me the American Lifestyle Magazine each quarter as part of her real estate marketing efforts. I can’t get over how many great recipes and articles I find in these mags! The current issue has a section entitled, ‘The Art of Simple Bites,’ which is where I found the recipe for Pickled Fig,...
Happy Friday! Chocolate lovers – this one is for you. This is the fourth time I have made these vegan (don’t let that word scare you- read on!) chocolate coffee cupcakes and each time I am modifying the recipe a little bit to make them tastier, healthier and easier. I’m really happy with this batch. They are incredibly moist, not...
Happy Friday! These days we are all about marketing and branding – ads are everywhere- Facebook, Instagram, you name it. Did you ever think that we market our own personal brand- namely, our face? We all have different yet not very distinct body types but our face is our proprietary brand. It’s our defining attribute and we want – we...
Happy Friday! One year ago this month, I left my corporate job as the Marketing Manager of a large, global law firm to focus on this blog. It has been a crazy, fun, stressful and action-packed year of discovery and creativity. I got to know myself better, had the pleasure of spending more time with those furry beings for which...
Happy Friday! It feels great to be back to posting. I took some time off and then Hurricane Irma became the main event for pretty much the whole month of September! I hope my South Floridian friends’ lives are back to normal. While my little cottage fared well, the lush jungle we once had took a serious beating. All in...
Happy Friday! The answer to all our health and beauty questions is staring us in the face. While we have been living in a chemical bubble for some time, there is shift going on and we are beginning to wake up to the notion that everything we need to thrive is provided by mother nature. Our great grandmothers knew it and lived by it every day. The...
