smile.amazon.com … It’s easy! Just select “Youth Employment Service of the Harbor Area” as your nonprofit choice on AmazonSmile and continue with your holiday gift purchases! YES! is an awesome organization that I personally support and volunteer for, and believe in wholeheartedly.
I will always be Texan, no matter where I live. My heart is with my home state. Houston is home to much of my family and many friends, and I was part of the group who tried—and failed—to evacuate during Hurricane Rita while I was in school at Rice. Watching Houstonians and Texans band together…
This is funny: click to open the #GivingTuesday Circular Following the shopping frenzies of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a way of reminding consumers to give back after days of shopping. The super creative circular above mocks the traditional sales flyers while showcasing the pre-packaged donations you can make,…
Cuz you most definitely need a little om in your life before/after all that yum. Check out donation yoga all over O.C. at one of their ten CorePower locations, list here. Say you’re in Austin, they got you too. Houston, where I’ll be, has no CorePowers. I’ll be looking for a class (and update here…
A few days before our backpacking wedding trip to Rae Lakes—which I still owe this blog pictures of—a LifeStraw water bottle arrived for me. Now, we’d already invested in the Sawyer filtration system, which for backcountry backpacking is an ideal weight and easy-ness. But I clipped my new LifeStraw on my backpack anyway, and boy…
I live and die by online shopping—a holdover from living in the mountains and not having access to a store that sold normal underwear. Not fancy undies, just normal-people-underwear. Aspen, Colorado does not sell this. I digress. My new go-to for supps, clean beauty, health, protein, and all that healthy stuff is LuckyVitamin, as discussed…
“War is ugly… it is not pretty,” says Shari Duval. “These men and women write a blank check to our country and give their lives. They come home from combat aschanged people. They’re depressed, angry, and have survivor’s guilt. We have a responsibility to take care of these veterans. That is why I am here.…
Former Cosmo editor writes Gone Girl-esque novel that’s already been optioned for a movie by Reese Witherspoon—and she’ll be here next Sunday with wine? Sign me up. Meet Jessica Knoll and hear about the Luckiest Girl Alive, which is already nominated for the Edgar Award™ for Best First Novel, this Sunday, April 10 @ 3:00pm at the Newport Beach Public Library, my new…
How cool is this? Schoola.com resells clothes and proceeds support different causes that schools are championing—so schools host used-clothing drives, mail in the clothes, they’re sold online, and proceeds go back to the school. So Athleta, well, we all know Athleta (some of my fave workout shorts)—premium athletic wear line from the Banana Republic/Gap/Old Navy…
It came time to give up Ginger Lynne, the jeep. But I did not know what else I wanted. A friend suggested a MINI, but I wanted to test drive one before really considering it, but I hate dealerships and could not fathom going to one and being beat up and abused as dealerships do…