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In honor of my friend, John­Jay who is vis­it­ing India for the first time. The best Indian chai is always at the rail­road sta­tions. My favorite was this rick­ety cart that was manned by an old guy with only 1 tooth at the Kodai Road Sta­tion. Indian RR Tea (chai) Bring to a boil: 2c. water 3–4 […]

1. Turn­ing 38 wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I feel good. I look good (holla!). And I’m sur­rounded by peo­ple who love my smile lines, gray hair and stoopy old back! 2. God has a way of giv­ing you that boost of energy just when you think you can’t go on. […]

Image via Crunch­Base Ok, this is where I will prob­a­bly step on many a toe, but really? This needs to be said. (And in case you don’t know me, I don’t have a mean bone in my body…just unfil­tered thoughts.) Fol­low Fri­day sucks! {…in my opin­ion…} For those of you who have NO idea what […]

My dear Sweet­Boy, I hate to sound so cliché’ but the lit­tle talk we had before school today was more painful for me to say than for you to hear. It’s so com­mon for boys your age to want more respon­si­bil­i­ties because they’re so close to being teenagers. You’re want­ing to spread those wings out […]

I feel the need to set some­thing straight. There seems to be a mis­un­der­stand­ing amongst cof­fee drinkers that if you don’t take your cof­fee black that you’re not a TRUE cof­fee drinker. To that I say most pro­fes­sion­ally, “Pssssh­h­h­haw!! I have tried to curb my cof­fee intake no less than 50 gazil­lion times with no […]

I have been busy get­ting pre­pared for a cou­ple of con­fer­ences and I’m really excited about it!  I’m actu­ally quite annoying…just ask J. HA! A Woman Inspired — Nur­tur­ing Cre­ativ­ity & Effi­cient Liv­ing Jan­u­ary 25–29, 2010 I got so much out of these online con­fer­ences last year that I couldn’t help but be part of it […]