I went to bed last night with excitement in my heart for the promise of 12.12.12. And while I am more of a words girl than a numbers girl, I do love my numbers nonetheless, especially when they carve out something of a numerically historical day. Before I feel asleep, my excitement was numbed
RAINBOW PERSPECTIVES
Life is fully determined by perspective. Some people engage in the argument of nature versus nurture, but I don’t believe that either of those are nearly as defining as personal perspective. The beautiful thing about perspective is that we have full power and control to determine our own. We aren’t born with a specific perspective,
PETIT PLAISIRS IN AN AMERICAN WORLD
In France, petits plaisirs, or small pleasures, are what make life so very worth living. Petits plaisirs are exactly why the French do not know the meaning over over-indulgence, for they understand that by allowing yourself the petits plaisirs you desire (in moderation that is), your life will be more balanced and complete. Keeping with
25 MPH WITH JINGLE BELLS
Our lives move at a constant 85 mph. It is a pace of life that is adulated by American society for its efficiency, productivity, and ability to “do it all” in one day. The sad truth is that 85 mph is a speed which prevents us from really living. Someone told me this weekend that
LIVE, LOVE, & EAT 86,400 SECONDS OF THANKS
Happy Thanksgiving! As you turkey trot your way around the local roads and your kitchen this morning, take thanks in every small moment of this day. There are 86,400 seconds in a day; catch these seconds as you live them and give thanks for every small detail of this holiday. If you run a local Turkey
BIG BABY IN A BIG WORLD
Technology is something that seems to continually remind me that I am just a baby in a big world. It’s always changing, always updating, and the more you learn about it, the more you learn that you have more to learn. Just a simple upgrade from WordPress.com to WordPress.org took me an entire week to
WINE BARS AND FRENCH GLASSES
Wine bars transport me back to France. They encompass everything I used to love about my days living and working in Bordeaux, the days where I “worked” for two hours and then spent the rest of the day with friends and wine at a café. Richmond has a fantastic new little wine bar that I
WEALTH AND HEALTH
It’s easy to get intimated by others when surrounded by some of the World’s best athletes. I have had to pinch myself this weekend to remind myself that true wealth is in health, and that no matter how a race goes, what I really should be thankful for is my health. I consciously chose not
1,440 MINUTES
I bought my first hourglass yesterday. I didn’t need an hourglass, but I bought it because I wanted to watch time. Time, the worlds’ most valuable and possibly most overlooked asset, is relative. It flies by and, too often, we don’t realize how quickly it goes. We spend our childhoods anxious to grow up, and our adult lives wishing