Let’s Make Turkey Spinach Lasagna!

One of the perks of going gluten free is getting crafty in the kitchen. When you have all but eliminated bread from your diet, you have to think harder – and smarter – about what you’re going to eat. Granted, it’s not as if you have to change up your diet...

Seven Years

Seven years ago today, I started dating my best friend. Seven years ago today, we started on the beautiful journey that has shaped our very existence – that is love. We were so young, and yet we laid the first foundation of this perfectly imperfect life.   Five...

Throwback Thursday

Where there is a will, there is a way. I used a variation on this motto as the slogan for my campaign to become student body president in sixth grade. Since I attended a private elementary school, I remained there instead of moving on to middle school like my fellow...

Breakfast on the Balcony

As I write this, I am sitting with my husband on the balcony of our Los Angeles condo, sipping coffee while the birds sing. I come from a family of nature people, but I have never been one. I’ve always been a city girl, preferring a manicured park over the crunchy...

Wizarding World of Harry Potter Opening Day

I have been a fan of Harry Potter since I was eleven. I received my Hogwarts acceptance letter in the form of a hardback version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and for the next 10 years I clung to every page and watched every minute as soon as the...