Where living an amazing life never gets old
So today is the big day: voting is now open for the first week of Blogger Idol! Our first assignment was to write a eulogy for ourselves. You can play along yourself and even link up your own posts. It’s actually a great writing exercise, and makes you think about how you want to be –…
Michael’s birthday started on a high note – literally – with a hot air balloon ride over Scottsdale/Phoenix. It was his 57th birthday, he was born in 1957 and 57 is my lucky number, so it had to be a special celebration.
You know how much we love our Viking river cruises. Well, we just booked our first Viking Ocean Cruise — yes, Viking is now cruising on the ocean, too! — and we are so excited. We were even more excited after I received an amazing email with the subject line, “12 Musts for Lois’ Great…
There’s something about the Mazda6 that just makes you want to get in the car and go somewhere. Maybe it’s the sporty look, maybe it’s the “zoom zoom” that seems to whisper every time you glance at it. Whatever it is, it gave us a serious case of wanderlust. Last year around this time, Michael…
If you’re a Facebook friend of mine, you know that I spent the weekend cleaning my closet. (Yes, I lead a very glamorous life.) I will be writing about the surprising lessons I learned during this task later but, meanwhile, here’s a very important question for you.
One and a half MILLION innocent children died in the Holocaust, and in an effort to honor and remember them, the Holocaust Museum Houston is collecting one and half million handmade butterflies. The project, inspired by “I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944,” will become a must-see exhibit…
On my former blog, we featured a story about UniquEco – an award-winning African company that transforms discarded flip flops into innovative pieces of art and jewelry. It was a story that resonated so strongly with our readers, we decided to become UniquEco’s first collection source in the U.S. Thanks to your generosity, we received…
My daughter went back to school today to start her senior year of college. Before we dropped her off at the airport, though, she asked me a question that still haunts me: “Did you ever decide what your most beautiful body part is?” I know I have to give you some history to put this…
