Hey guys! I hope the holiday season has been amazing for you! This was the first Christmas my boyfriend and I spent together as a living-together couple. I loved every moment and will cherish the memories of us baking cookies together (and eating too much dough…at least there’s no potential of salmonella!), watching movies in [...]

Hey guys! I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about 2013. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been ghostwriting articles on ways entrepreneurs can prepare for the new year or because I’ve been reading Brendon Burchard’s book The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive, which has you, the reader, focus on doing [...]

Hey guys! I hope you are well. I wanted to share some of the things I’m grateful for and/or enjoying. Perhaps you shall enjoy them too! I’m grateful to Hail Merry for sending me three flavors of their raw, vegan, gluten-free & kosher macaroons! Did they know that I was in the middle of saying, [...]

Hey guys! Today’s WEGO Health Activist Writer Challenge prompt asks a very important question: why do you write about your health? You guys know that my motivations for writing about my health have changed over the years. What began as a way to tell my weight-loss story and a way to stay accountable to my [...]

Hey guys! This past week was a roller-coaster. On Tuesday, my mom called me to tell me my twin brother was in the hospital and about to undergo an appendectomy. So, I drove to my mom who then drove us to the hospital. Of course we got lost on the way, there was traffic and [...]

If I were Alice in Wonderland standing amid the doors of my life, 2011 would be marked, “welcome to adulthood.” A lot of significant transitions occurred this year, primarily my transition from grad student juggling freelance gigs w/ an income supplemented by student loans to a full-time independent contractor learning the ropes of self-sufficiency and [...]

This past January and February hold an incredibly special place in my heart. My band and I had our first coffee shop performance at Viento y Agua in Long Beach and we also ventured together to New Mexico to record with our favorite producer, Joey Belville (singer & producer of The Echoing Green and producer [...]

Amended Hi guys! Guess what?! We have new muuuuuusic! *cackles* The release of my band, The Antique Toy’s, album “When it Started to Begin” couldn’t come at a more meaningful time — at least for me (and it’s all about me, right? harharhar). As a freshly graduated chick trying to take over the world like [...]

There are few things outside of music-making that can duplicate this smile My heart will stay in the ABQ, but my body is leaving tonight! School resumes tomorrow. after the 12-hour ride home. oy. Missing my family, my boyf, my zoo, beach runs, veggies and sleep. I feel a bit…sloth-like? Been in the studio all [...]

all you need is a detour. so we made it count… and finished off the epicness of the day with some vegan wonton soup from Thai Vegan in Albuquerque So, we made it to “the ABQ” after an impromptu detour to the Grand Canyon in AZ. We’ve met with the Wizard and begin a full [...]