Jenga – It’s Not Just for Kids
Jenga Machine Gun (Photo credit: Wikipedia) After a doubles match in tennis, our friends came over for dinner tonight. (We would have played a second match, only the lights went out during our fifth...
View ArticleLiebster Award
Thank you, Malkire, for nominating me for the LIEBSTER AWARD Here are 11 random facts about me: I am 5’4″ (don’t tell the DMV, they think I’m 5’5″) I am an Aries, through and through My middle name...
View ArticleThe Year of the Snake
Happy Chinese New Year! It’s officially “The Year of the Snake.” According to Hitomi, our favorite waitress at Sushi Zen (our favorite sushi restaurant in Savannah) it’s going to be a lucky year for...
View ArticleA True Love Story
Happy Valentine’s Day! My story is in The Huffington Post today… If you have a moment, please read it and share! And as if that isn’t fabulous enough, look what I got from The Little Ninja: Related...
View ArticleSynchronicity
According to Wikipedia: Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together...
View ArticleCake Decorating for Dummies
The Little Ninja turned 10 last week, and since his party was on Saturday, of course I went looking for a cake on Friday morning. There wasn’t a decent cake to be found. And since there was no way I...
View ArticleFitbit Flex – The Slave Band of Exercise
My slave band of fitness Someone in my family recently had the great stupid idea of getting a Fitbit Flex band to monitor fitness. I thought I had been doing pretty good myself – working out several...
View ArticleJayne Mansfield’s Car & Swordfish
G and I watched the movie Jayne Mansfield’s Car last night. He wasn’t impressed, but I actually liked it. Of course, I’m more of an Indie Film kind of girl. The movie is about a dysfunctional southern...
View ArticleFun and Games at a Swiss Museum
What to do on a rainy day on Lake Geneva (aka Lac Léman)?? Go to a museum, of course! And if you are with kids, there is nothing better than the Château in La Tour-de-Peilz. (Don’t ask me how to...
View ArticleThe Golden Ticket to Scientology
The Little Ninja and I were down in Clearwater over Easter weekend visiting his Big Bro. I was feeling bad because I had planned on coloring eggs at home and hiding those plastic eggs full of goodies...
View ArticleA Musical Seduction – The Long Engagement Playlist
I love music. For as long as I can remember, my life has been filled with it. First, there was my mother playing the piano. And then piano lessons for me. (Okay, I admit I was bribed by the promise of...
View ArticleOne Nation. One Team.
On Saturday, we drove down to Jacksonville to watch the last friendly game before the U.S. Men’s Soccer Team heads to Brazil for the World Cup. It was my first professional soccer game, and I was very...
View ArticleYou Can’t Fly on Just One Wing – Cooking Demo at Frali Gourmet
On Friday night, Franco Marra had an audience of nine captivated locals at FraLi Gourmet, in Savannah. We were there to watch him do his magic: bringing Italian food to life with just a few simple,...
View ArticleMonkey See-Monkey Do!
Happy Chinese New Year…a couple days late, I know. That sneaky monkey! I’ve been so busy that I barely noticed the changeover, although I did pack away all the Sheep paraphernalia decorating the...
View ArticleJayne Mansfield’s Car & Swordfish
G and I watched the movie Jayne Mansfield’s Car last night. He wasn’t impressed, but I actually liked it. Of course, I’m more of an Indie Film kind of girl. The movie is about a dysfunctional southern...
View ArticleSeptember Sneaks In on Little Dog Feet
How did it get to be September, anyway? It seems like just yesterday when I was mulling over ideas of where to go with this blog and writing about the Chinese New Year! And now we’re in the third...
View ArticlePorsche Driving Experience
Last week, I had to renew my passport in Atlanta. I’m heading across the pond soon, and in order to be allowed through customs in Germany (and many other destinations, to be sure) your passport has to...
View ArticleOink – The Year of the Pig
Hello friends! Long time no post. But I’m baaaaaack! I am planning to tap into the pig this year and reconnect with the enthusiasm that I started my blog with. I hope to suppress some of my...
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