Staying active while traveling

Golden Gate bridge

It’s always a bit tricky to stay active with you’re on the road and traveling. You’re out of your element. You may not have access to a gym. You may not be able to stick to your “routine.” However, it’s also an opportunity to explore new ways of being active while exploring a new city. [...]

Lessons from Ski School – Part 2

kids skiing

It started about a month before our trip to California. “Mommy – I don’t want to go skiing.” I stopped what I was doing for a split second. I tried not to whip my head around and begin my campaign to convince him otherwise. Or at least not to yell, “WHAT DO YOU MEAN???!?” Instead, [...]

I love skiing

Northstar at Tahoe

I spent the day skiing on the mountains of Northstar-at-Tahoe yesterday. I was happy, very happy. It was a gorgeous day – warm, crystal clear blue skies and bright sunshine. Since it was mid-week, the mountain was empty. No lines for the lifts, meaning less time waiting and more time skiing. This was my first time skiing [...]

Memories Captured: Cousins and Chinese New Year

sunset oakland hills

I have a lot of cousins. First cousins and second cousins and fake cousins (i.e. children of close family friends) and real cousins. Weekends were full of family get-togethers. Our parents would eat and drink and play mah-jong upstairs while the kids played and ran wild in the basement. We literally grew up together. Those [...]

Memories Captured: Magical Memories

Mickey and Minnie Collage

I mentioned before that we went to Disney World right before Thanksgiving. Now, I have to tell you the truth. I wasn’t entirely excited about going to Disney. While I do have very fond memories of visiting Disney when I was a kid (It’s a Small World! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! Dumbo!), I couldn’t help [...]

Scenes from my weekend: Disney and Thanksgiving

christmas lights brooklyn

Oh, hey! How are you? It feels like it’s been ages since I’ve been here. I hope that you all enjoyed the guest bloggers last week. Thanks so much to Tamara, Larissa and Kammie! In case you missed them, here are their posts: 5 tips for improving your functional fitness Thanksgiving Day workout 3 great ways to use coconut flour [...]

9 states plus DC. 1300+ miles. 23 hours. Home.

Verrazano Bridge

  We made it! We made it! Thank you all for your support and concern. It was another marathon drive yesterday – 9 hours and approximately 500 miles. We left Raleigh around noon so that we both could get a little bit or work done in the morning and get an update on the road [...]

Scenes from my weekend: St. Kitts

sunrise on plane

So remember when I said that I was going to take 10 minutes for myself starting on Friday? Well, I ended up taking taking much more than 10 minutes. Actually, it looks like I might be taking some more time. On Friday, I flew down to St. Kitts to attend the wedding of one of [...]