2017 wasn’t a great year for me. I’m the type of person who consistently puts together new year’s resolutions and for the most part, I’m good at achieving them. In 2017, I had 21 goals that fit under the following…
One Day in LA
Last month, on Thursday November 2, I flew down to spend a single day with my LA-based high school friends and see Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors exhibit at the Broad museum. It was a luxurious treat to myself, and totally…
Happy Thanksgiving and the Best Way to Sign Your Emails
I hope you all are having a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, filled with food, fun, and family. I am under the weather, which makes me grateful for all the other days of the year when I am perfectly healthy. I am…
The Clement: A 6 Star Luxury Hotel in Palo Alto
This past weekend, we had the privilege of staying at The Clement Hotel in Palo Alto. It’s a high-end, all-inclusive concept, with bottled water, snacks, drinks, wine (Hello Stag’s Leap!), breakfast, lunch, dinner, valet parking, and gratuities included. It’s unlike any…
#HimToo: How Men Helped Advance My Career
I was moved by the article ‘Thoughts on Vegas, and Why Men Keep Doing This,’ which describes the loneliness of men and how our culture (which lacks adult play) has led to mental illness and mass shootings. Further, I’ve been…
How You Can Help in the Aftermath of the California Wildfires
Firefighters expect the Northern California wine country wildfires that began on Sunday October 8 to be fully contained by Friday October 20. That’s almost two weeks of raging burns. During this time, additional fires have popped up in Santa Cruz…
Enjoying Art Without the Wait
Color Factory: Check. Museum of Ice Cream: Check. Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors: Scored tickets and soon to be checked in November. A lot of people quipped that getting tickets to the above shows was harder than getting tickets to Hamilton….
How to Support Refugees and Sustainable Employment
I recently read about a non-profit organization whose mission completely resonated with me, so much so that I conducted online due diligence, reached out, and enthusiastically asked, “How can I help?!” Background on 1951 Coffee Company 1951 Coffee Company is…
How to Retire at 55 Years Old
Ditch the Rugrats If you want to retire by the time you’re 55 years old, don’t have kids. If we didn’t have a child, I could retire right now and blog all day for fun. For real. Believe me, I love…
What Kind of Help Do You Hire?
When I was growing up, we didn’t have a nanny or babysitters, cleaners or assistants, therapists or life coaches. Yet now I have all of that and more! Americans have access to Amazon, Seamless, Instacart, Plated, Birchbox, Uber…where there’s a need,…