If you are raising a kid in Paris, then you are pretty darn lucky to be surrounded by so much culture, impressive museum collections, buildings and monuments. I studied the decorative arts and was mostly interested in French social and material culture. Naturally, as a history nerd, I hope my daughter will soak it all up too and ...
I know in the summer some of us (uh…me!!) think about our waistline, so strawberries sound like sugar and dessert diet-killers. But the next time you think you’ll pass on strawberry dessert—think again! These juicy berries are a sodium-free, cholesterol-free, fat-free low calorie superfood packed with ...
One of my patients brought me a tomato plant recently—a beautiful, leafy thing about a foot and a half high, smelling like a garden. I put it in the window box to bask in the sun. The next day when I opened the shades mental alarm bells started ...
This week I am in Lucerne, Switzerland with my in-laws. The weather changes every day from chilly, to blazing heat, to relentless rain. Somehow I do not mind it because the scenery is crazy beautiful. Yesterday we went on a five-hour hike up a mountain!! Miserably hard on ...
I don’t mean to be Debbie Downer, but I lost a close friend who was riding his bike to the store five minutes from his apartment. He would still be with us today if he had just been wearing a darn helmet!! I know most Velibers cannot be bothered to pack/wear a helmet but little kids NEED them. A simple ...
