Maybe I’m imagining things, but I think it’s been a wee bit cooler here these past couple of days… as in, I had to put on a sweater whilst working in my air-conditioned kitchen! But hey, I’ll take what I can get, and go ahead and call it “fall.”. Fall is my favourite season, you know. …
Who’s ready for autumn?? (My hand is flying high…) Here in Philippines it’s not like the seasons never change… but all of them involve some variation of warm, humid weather, with either a lot of rain, or no rain. It is the tropics after all! But what we don’t get is that crisp, cool, …
Abs, abs, abs… all over social media I see umpteen million ways to get the abs of your dreams… “Just do this routine of 5 easy exercises,” they say, “and by bikini season you’ll have that 6-pack you’ve been waiting for all your life!” Except “they” forgot to tell you that no matter how great your …
It started out just like any other day… WAIT!!! NO IT DIDN’T!!! Because I didn’t have a green smoothie OR a banana oat cookie!!! Hold the phone… first my recipe thingamajig is having problems, and then I didn’t have my beloved tried-and-true-breakfast. Well, if the world is turning upside down, I might as well branch …
Some things are annoying, and beyond our control. For example: Traffic: in Manila we don’t say “traffic jams,” just “traffic,” and everyone just nods their head… People who say mean things… And blogs that break themselves even though you haven’t changed anything. Yes, #3 happened to me, and is still happening!! My recipe thingamajig just …
I’ve always had a thing against “appetisers”… I suppose it comes from all those years my mother refused to give me a snack in the 2-hour window before dinner, no matter how much I begged. “No, dear” she would say… “you’ll ruin your dinner.” Her words ring in my ear to this day. She’s right, …
In Philippines it never truly gets cold enough to make soup… but we make it anyway, because hey, soup is good, right? I just wait for a cloudy day (and in rainy season, I never have to wait long!) turn on the air-conditioner, and pretend we measure temperature in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. It’s worked …
I always pack my workout gear when I travel. Usually, a pile of it… workout tights & sports bras are allotted an embarrassingly high percentage of volume in my suitcase. Even knowing how much we were going to be traveling on our Irish vacation these past 11 days, I hopefully packed 2 outfits and figured …
Yes, you read that right… I’m going to IRELAND!!! And I’m a little bit excited about it! My sweet Sara and I are going to join my family there to remember and celebrate the life of my cousin, Adam, who was an amazing young man who spread joy wherever he went. He walked through life …
Let’s face it, friends… sometimes you just don’t have 45 minutes to work out. Not when there’s groceries to be bought, kids to be dropped off or picked up from school, and those last 18 episodes of Downton Abbey or Lost to watch… I get it and I’m not judging. Nope, I’m here to provide …
