Mama’s sissies are in town. They are my aunts and I love them! It’s a family girls weekend, and I couldn’t be more excited. Or grateful. We also got to see my baby cousin who is now 4, which is apparently not baby anymore but I don’t care, because she is the best. And she…
I’m not gonna say I’m CELEB famous for my salads, but … I’m pretty damn close. My salads are requested from coast to coast, born in Aspen, created currently in SoCal, spreading across the continent to D.C. and beyond. Here’s how to make the magic. All sourced at Trader Joe’s: Kale $2 Spinach $2 Cabbage $1.50…
I guess a mini-deodorant isn’t that heavy. But in backpacking, weight is everything. Swipe contacted me just a few days before my recent backpacking trip offering a sample, so I gladly opted in. After all, a few packets of wipe-able deodorant are way lighter than the lighted deodorant stick. Plus, they’re biodegradable, so I don’t even…
Horses. I love horses. I love to ride but don’t get much of a chance to out here in SoCal. Last weekend in Asheville, we only went on a trail ride and walked and trotted, but it’s still wonderful to be around horses. I have a terrible sense of smell in general, but I LOVE…
No, Really, You Can Drink More Water Sitting in the airport waiting on our third amigo to drive out to Asheville for the bachelorette weekend, I spotted Cassie drinking out of a Reduce WaterWeek water bottle. “Cass! Is that the refrigerator bottle from Cait?” “Yes, we all have them. My parents, my brother, everyone.” “Those…
The bikini was created/first appeared at a poolside fashion show in Paris on July 5, 1946. The then shockingly skimpy design, dubbed the bikini after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, took twenty-plus years to really catch on … and now we’ve moved to even more shockingly-skimpy designs with the prevalence of thong bikinis (remember…
This time of year for most of my adolescence, I headed to summer camp. Camp Olympia was, and still is, the most magical place on earth. Camp was a place I thrived, where I felt happiest, safest, most comfortable in my own skin. Camp was where I most fully learned to embrace who I am,…
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…
These are my new computer glasses. I LURVE them. I have never worn glasses in my life, but after reading about how horrible working at a computer all day is for your eyeballs, I felt compelled to save my perfect eyesight with a little blue-light-filtering, magnifying, glare-reducing pair of totally hipster computer glasses. felixgray.com, $95.…
Happy International Day of Yoga! A new yoga mat for me has been long overdue, but I finally got this gorgeous purple eKO Lite Manuka mat. Baby’s first nice yoga mat. I almost feel like a real yogi. But what really makes me feel like a real yogi? Yoga mat spray. That you don’t have…