I serve this smoothie during the holiday season to my family and guests. Just because it may be cold out doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy this heart healthy drink, which includes the star of the season, pumpkin! Pumpkin is filled with potassium, fiber and Vitamin C, all which supports heart he...
Gratitude is a big word. As humans, living in a society that demands we constantly be productive, we get pulled into this vacuum of thought where we desire more and more. We strive for this perfect life, which is an illusion of sorts. We find ourselves wanting more things: a bigger ...
RETHINKING THE THREE-STAGE LIFE “When work for most people meant manual labor, there was no need to worry about the second half of your life. You simply kept on doing what you had always done. And if you were lucky enough to survive 40 years of hard work in the mill or on the railroad, yo...
In this life and these times, we are all moving at a supernova speed. It is exciting, it is empowering; however, it can also be challenging. And for some reason, there never seems to be enough ‘time.’ We are moving so fast to stay on top of our goals and priorities that there's a sense...
The widest river in the world is not the Mississippi, Amazon, or Nile. The widest river on earth is a body of water called If Only. Throngs of people stand on its banks and cast longing eyes over the waters. They long to cross but can’t seem to find the ferry. They are convinced the I...
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. — Deepak Chopra As I watched the news unfold on Thursday about the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, here in California, a woman on the treadmill next to me at the gym said, “You know, you can’t go anywhere in this country ...
Ramon Contreras is a 19-year-old political activist and filmmaker who is changing the nature of civic engagement by championing and encouraging minorities to participate in politics. Contreras is a powerful gun control enthusiast and founded YouthOverGuns, a platform advocating for change ...
Everything in life starts with a dream. But first the dream needs to be clearly defined and, more important, you need to understand why you want it. At fourteen, and at twenty, and at twenty- seven, I never said to myself, “My goal is to be a great model.” Rather, my emphasis was to be...
Every time I vote, as I hope we all did last Tuesday, I get a little misty-eyed. For most of history, most people haven’t had voting rights. Feudal systems, slavery, dictatorships, colonialism—so many structures suppressed so many people for so long. When my father was born, American women...
I grew up listening uncomfortably to after-dinner political debates between my conservative parents and my liberal maternal grandparents. My maternal grandmother was known to have “converted” my grandfather from the Republican to the Democratic Party. My grandfather had inherited a long-...
