1. One thing I always miss from home is ‘multivitamin juice’, a blend of a few different kind of fruit juices (and I admit, I am a bit picky!). In the past, I was never successful finding something similar here in the US (most juice blends were thin and watery punch-like concoctions), but I recently…
The weekend before last, I participated in the annual Davis Pride Run for Equality 10k again. If you recall, I ran this small local race last year for the first time and it’s the 3rd time they’re putting it on.This time, my dear friend (and running buddy!) Susi signed up as well. We met…
feeling giddy about going to the The Total Package Tour with New Kids on the Block (most excited about!), Boyz II Men (very excited about) and Paula Abdul (marginally excited about). eating boiled potatoes with herbed yogurt dip. So good! listening to NPR. That’s pretty much all I listen to at the moment during my…
As I mentioned, at the beginning of my Germany trip, I spent 24 hours near Munich visiting my best friend from back home. She moved to Munich a couple of years ago and I had yet to see where she now lives with her husband M at Lake Starnberg. I first flew into Frankfurt and…
Hello strangers. I am back from my overseas trip and – as always – am incredibly emotionally jetlagged. The general feeling of “blah, what am I doing here?” has yet to completely fade away and this always translates into a rather sluggish re-entry into my routine and daily life here in CA. I know from…
Around the Interwebs Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong… which is, nearly impossible. The surprising benefits of being (slightly) crazy. Do you need an excuse to be lazy? Here it is: The psychological importance of wasting time. What a heartbreaking, but beautiful story. Are you a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty kinda…
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I started half marathon training again. I’ve been consistently running the last few months, but without any real purpose. I mean, I wanted to keep up mileage and – as I said at the beginning of the year somewhere – incorporate more cross-training, but this was it. This…
Sometimes we get into the habit of cooking the same things over and over again, so you might recall that one of my goals for last month was to try a few new dishes. We tried a few, but this one stood out in particular and we have made this again twice (which is a…
Another solid reading month for me. Sometimes I turn around just to make sure there is no clone that is doing all that reading for me, or something. I still can’t quite believe how I have turned my reading life around in the last 4 months. I read 9 books in April. All of them…
Every time I travel back home, I have a bucket list of things to do when I am there. This is totally normal, right? Everybody makes lists like this. Since this is my hometown I am visiting, my list includes nothing much out of ordinary, nostalgic things (these are by no means tourist-y suggestions, sorry!)……
