Hello lovely readers! It’s “Christmas Eve Eve” and amazingly, I’m not up to my eyeballs in wrapping paper and last-minute cookie baking. Maybe that will be tomorrow… But today, I have a quiet moment and I want to just reflect on these last 8 months of blogging and say a big THANK YOU!!! I had no …
Although it’s December, and snow has fallen several times for my family in Colorado, here in Philippines it’s still hot, hot, HOT!!! Which means I usually can’t bring myself to eat cooked oatmeal, no matter how high I crank up my air-con. So today I had a smoothie bowl. I’ve been really into these lately! …
It all started with a green smoothie… You’d think I would get tired of this, but I don’t. I actually miss it when I don’t have it. To remind you what’s in it: a huge handful of fresh spinach leaves, 1 or 2 chunks of cucumber, 1/2 a fresh orange, 1 cup almond milk, 1 …
Considering all the “What I Ate Wednesday” posts you haven’t seen lately, you might wonder if maybe I’ve gotten into intermittent fasting or something. But no, I’ve been chowing down as usual… My morning began as it normally does, with coffee & quiet time. Love starting my day this way! Then came the green smoothie, …
I was looking over my blog posts of the past 8 weeks, and I was startled by how its colour scheme shifted abruptly from yellows & greens when I was in Manila, to blues and reds since I’ve been in the U.S. The difference between mangoes and berries, I guess! Get ready for the shift back …
I promised you early on that my eating life is not all massaged kale salads, chia pudding, and homemade almond milk. That’s right, friends, there are days, sometimes several in a row, when my normal abundance of fresh fruits and raw veg are scarcely seen. Granted, it’s not often, but it happens. Usually on vacation! …
Have you ever prepared for or anticipated something for so long that in the end, nothing can do it justice? That’s kind of how I feel about this first blog post. I’ve been planning IT, the BLOG, for an embarrassingly long time. Like 2 years. Or 3, I can’t remember. Part of my hold-up was …
