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,…
Burning Man 2007: 10 Years Ago the Man Burned Twice
On Tuesday August 28, 2007 around 3am, I had momentarily laid my head down in a friend’s RV, waiting for him to return before heading back to frolic on the playa. Suddenly there were shouts and screams, fingers pointing toward the…
Did You See the Total Solar Eclipse? An Event of a Lifetime
Were you able to peak at the rare total eclipse yesterday? Even though total eclipses occur every year or two, a very small percentage of the world population has ever been in the path of totality. What made the 2017…