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The casual marathoner and occasional foodie and fashionista.

January 11, 2012 Uncategorized Latina, Lifestyle, Parenting

Resolution Shmezolution: I'm Just Trying to Get Through the Day

Resolution Shmezolution: I'm Just Trying to Get Through the Day

Uggh. Everywhere I go people are talking about their New Year’s resolutions. It was even a homework assignment in my son’s kindergarten

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December 8, 2011 Uncategorized gender inequality, homeboy industries, homegirl cafe, jane fonda, Jennifer Siebel NEwsom, Latina, life after 50, Lifestyle, lisa ling, Parenting, Ted talks, Tedx, third acts

Tedx Women – A Call to Action

Tedx Women – A Call to Action

This post first appeared on Technorati Women  Shamila Kohestani was trapped in her house for years. She couldn’t read a book or study

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December 1, 2011 Uncategorized benefits of milk, california milk board, Chocolate milk recovery, Latina, Lifestyle, Reviews

Chocolate Milk – Not Just For Kids

Chocolate Milk – Not Just For Kids

The older I get the harder it is for my body to recover after a workout. Way, way back in the day I

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November 7, 2011 Uncategorized disney half marathon, Lifestyle, Parenting, running after 40, running in los angeles, strength training after 40, tinkerbell, training for a half marathon

80 Days to Train for the Tinkerbell Half Marathon

80 Days to Train for the Tinkerbell Half Marathon

Wednesday was the day. After weeks of little exercise and a lot of Halloween candy, I finally started to run again. I’m

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September 21, 2011 Uncategorized Gluten Free, gluten free pie, Good Food Pie Contest, Kcrw, Lifestyle

Wordless Wednesday: Pies

Wordless Wednesday: Pies

Gluten-Free Tres Leches Pie Some of the competing pies for the KCRW Good Food Pie Contest A Tim Burton Inspired Pie –

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September 14, 2011 Uncategorized dulce de leche, Gluten Free, gluten free pie, gluten-free pie crust, Lifestyle, pie, tres leches

Good Food Pie Contest

Good Food Pie Contest

I have 2 words for you: Free Pie! That’s right, anyone who goes to the The Good Food Pie Contest gets to

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September 9, 2011 Uncategorized disneyland, gluten-free at Disneyland, Jedi Training Academy, Lifestyle, Parenting, Reviews, Star Tours, vacation

Disneyland: Still Magical

Disneyland: Still Magical

When I was a kid we did the same thing every summer. We got in the car and drove from Tucson across

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September 8, 2011 Uncategorized Jeff Galloway, kids health, Lifestyle, moms exercising, Parenting

Video with Jeff Galloway

Video with Jeff Galloway

I had a post on MomsLA today about what a great example a mother who exercises is for her kids. The post

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September 6, 2011 Uncategorized disneyland, disneyland half marathon, Lifestyle, Reviews, running, tinkerbell

Disneyland Half Marathon

Disneyland Half Marathon

This past weekend I completed my first Disneyland Half Marathon. I was invited by runDisney to participate and signed up at the

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August 31, 2011 Uncategorized Gluten Free, greek yogurt, Lifestyle, peach smoothie, Reviews, smoothie recipe

Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt

Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt

I wrote this post while participating in a blog tour conducted by Clever Girls on behalf of Dannon. I have been compensated

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August 30, 2011 Uncategorized aging issues, babies, birthdays, Lifestyle, Parenting

Six Years Old

Six Years Old

Six and a half years ago, I peed on a stick. Five sticks just to be sure. I thought there was no

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Someone who had stopped looking at news, asked me Someone who had stopped looking at news, asked me if ICE raids were still happening. Yes, they’re happening and now is not the time to look away. Reposted from LA Taco
Instead of staying up last night reading about all Instead of staying up last night reading about all the f-d up things going on in the world, I listened to podcasts about all the f-d up things in the world while I made For Goodness Cakes 🎂 🧁s.  It was my first attempt at cookies and cream and glad I researched what to do before I made it. I used boxed cake mix and subbed whipped egg whites for whole eggs to counter the denseness of the cookie crumbs and milk for water (I don’t remember why). For the strawberry frosting, I used cream cheese and whipping cream along with the butter, powdered sugar and dehydrated strawberries so the frosting wouldn’t be too sweet with the cookie crumbs. At first I thought this kid’s request for strawberry cake with Oreos cookies and cream and strawberry cream frosting was 🤮 but now I think she’s a culinary genius. It’s was so good I’m going to make it again but gluten free.
Did you know that the Minneapolis shooting that ki Did you know that the Minneapolis shooting that killed two children, injured 17 and traumatized countless others wasn’t the first school shooting this year?

“There have already been four shootings at K-12 schools this school year — not including today’s shooting in Minneapolis. So far in 2025, there have been at least 57 shootings at K-12 schools,” according to Everytown for Gun Safety.

It wasn’t the first Mass Shooting either. There’s been 286. As of today, 833 kids 17 and under were shot and killed, 2,236 were injured. Total number of gun deaths is 9,801 and that doesn’t include suicide. Source: Gun Violence Archive.

I’m sharing this because I don’t know what else to do. We talk and talk about making America safer but America will never be safe when about 1/3 of the country owns a gun (PEW Research). Today’s news will be added to a long list of terrible things that happened this week, this month, this year.
Vegan, vanilla tie dye cake! #losangeles #vegancak Vegan, vanilla tie dye cake! #losangeles #vegancake
I know worse things are happening in Los Angeles, I know worse things are happening in Los Angeles, but kids and young people are going without birthday cakes. I’m an occasional volunteer for the nonprofit For Goodness Cakes, where volunteers bake homemade birthday cakes for kids in foster care and children and young adults overcoming adversity. Since the ICE raids started, one of the participating organizations I’ve baked for has stopped requesting cakes because it’s not safe for their community to pick them up. So kids who are already going through a scary time won’t get the simple pleasure of having birthday cake on their very special day. It’s not the worst thing, but it really sucks.
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