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Lifestyle: Not So Valentine Weekend

I don’t like the pressure of Valentine’s Day. The need to buy your sweetheart a gift, the over priced flowers, the dinner reservations, jewelry, proposals, anticipation, or disappointments, sexual tension, and all other fuss surrounding the hype. Sorry to be such a Debbie-downer. But I haven’t celebrated the occasion for years, and I have no regrets. I don’t expect anything from my other-half, nor do I give anything in return. We usually spend the day, as if it’s just another day, going for a walk, a breakfast in Sausalito, an afternoon picnic in Napa, or a movie we’ve been waiting to see, and if the weather is at it’s worse, we stay in, and I make what I call a complex dinner I usually don’t on a hurried work week. It suits us to be the way we are, avoiding all pressures to do and be something we are not.  You see, for me, valentine’s day should be spontaneous,  and applied anytime or any day of the year. With that said, here’s a dessert I …

Lifestyle: What Could 1.3Billion Do?

Most ‘middle class’ Americans have either bought, or considered buying or are on the verge of buying lottery tickets today, with the hopes and dreams of winning the Powerball numbers this evening. The interesting thing is that, every conversation I have been involved in for the past week, had something to do with winning  and plans for spending the money. And out of the hundred or so individuals I spoke with, only a handful mentioned charity or doing something good with some of the winnings. The majority mentioned splurging. Which got me wondering if people truly understood just how much money 1.3 billion dollars really is? Which is best explained with the below quote. So the question I have for all of you. How would you spend the money if you were the lucky (on unlucky according to media) winner?  And if having loads of money doesn’t bring you happiness (according to true accounts in media), will solving the US poverty with your winnings make you happy?  The better question is – will you share …

Lifestyle: Interesting Finds Online – vol 1

Happy Friday! I say this because we made it through our first work week for 2016. And with that in  mind, I share with you some interesting finds online I stumbled upon at 4:00 a.m. when I woke up suddenly and decided to go over the checklist for the holiday party I am coordinating this evening for our company. So I figured while I run around today, organizing the last-minute details, making sure vendors show up and so on…I leave you with this. {photo credit for happy family}