Just yesterday, after recommending this whiskey to the umpteenth person (and after giving it as a gift, and, ahem, enjoying it myself), I realized I need to share it here. Go buy High West Distillery’s Barreled Manhattan. It’s delicious, hand-labeled, special, and perfect for any occasion. In O.C., you can find it at Costa Mesa’s…
I am a red-meat-eatin’ Texan (grass-fed only, duh), but I’m also a good dirty hippie who loves her some clean, plant-based products like these beauties. This brand-new line of supplements—protein, probiotics, and Omega-3 spray—being produced right here in Southern California (LA) is called Ora: ora.organic. I love these products. Ora claims to be the first…
Y’ALL. I turn 30fun in less than a month. 30 has been good to me. Tumultuous, adventurous, full of love and laughter. Here are 31 more things to accomplish before I turn 31: 1. Idaho (at least book the trip) 2. [redacted] 3. Closure [redacted] 4. Stain coffee table 5. Sand dumpster-diving entry table + buy…
This post was written during the preparation phase for this article, but I decided to hold it until the article actually came out (in the July issue of Orange Coast magazine). Click over to OrangeCoast.com for the full article. This note from Cali: Your daily dehydrating inspiration: Pain is temporary, lingerie pics in a magazine…
I spend a lot of time at the beach, playing beach football and volleyball and walking the dog and taking her to dog beach. But unless friends are visiting, it’s pretty rare that I load up a beach bag and head down with a magazine and beach towel to just “have a beach day” laying around.…
When we went to see my favorite baby child cousin recently, I knew I couldn’t go empty-handed. So I turned to a friend who knows this sort of thing, and she assures me that CUPPIES are THE hot gift (along with Aden + Anais swaddles* for the new, actual, baby) right now. That sweet Kaia seems to…
Back to my This is Life in … roots, a post on This is Life in a Motel. As I mentioned in Apartment Search, I am still looking for the perfect apartment. In my quest to not settle for anything less, perhaps paradoxically I moved into a motel (a motel, it should be noted, that is…
I’m not really a big kid person—I don’t coo over babies, I don’t wanna hold or pinch cheeks or any of that nonsense. But dear god do I love this baby child:
There’s the real thing. Then there’s the Tribathlon (which comes first? hot tub? steam room? or sauna?). And now, there’s the mindathlon, otherwise known as Wanderlust 108, the world’s first and only “mindful triathlon”: a 5K run, a 90-minute yoga class and a guided meditation on the beach … at the Santa Monica Pier on…
