Assistant Editor at @SDTimes. Journalist. Social Media Strategist. Hot Yoga enthusiast and soon to be RYT200. Lover of ladybugs, dogs and anything different. Afraid of raccoons, poor grammar and gluten. All comments here are my own. Enjoy! Xo V
My mom started talking about the Mommy Wars the other day — or at least the latest incarnation of it between Ann Romney and Hilary Rosen — and it got me thinking. My mother is a very successful attorney, something that I am now quite proud of, but it wasn’t always that way. When I [...]
You have to risk destruction for greatness I talk a lot of crap. Sometimes I walk the walk, sometimes I don’t…either way my friends have a way of letting me know that what I say actually matters. A friend tweeted that very quote to me the other day and I was like WOW, who said [...]
So, as you all know, one of my goals is to continue to be fit this year and make it a lifestyle instead of a diet, or summer prep. To that end, I found myself investigating Juice Cleanses as they seem to be a great way to get on track after falling off the wagon [...]
After reading Mandy Jenkin’s (former HuffPo self-proclaimed “Twitter Monkey”) thoughts on being a social media editor and what that does to her slightly less social Journalism aspirations, I had a few ideas of my own that I thought it would be good to share with the public. I’ve been a “social media coordinator” since 2008. [...]
Pinterest. If you haven’t heard this site, you’re living under a rock. If you’ve heard of it, but have no clue how to deal with it (let alone what a pin is) then this post is for you. You need to be invited to the new site. Once you’ve secured an invite, you can connect [...]
Okay, so I’m not going to write a weekly post like I did for the last ten weeks of 2011, but I am going to continue blogging. I may not necessarily have cared about my traffic in 2011, but I am going to grow the traffic, and community, on this blog in 2012. I am. [...]
Ahh it’s finally that time of year — the feast of the fishes. For those of you who don’t know, it’s an Italian tradition to eat at least 7 fish on Christmas Eve and absolutely no meat. I think it originated because we love fish and were poor for many Christmases, but now, it’s just [...]
December is upon us this week, and we’ve only got 5 more till 2012. What are you trying to accomplish? I’m here to check in with my goals. I haven’t lost all the weight I wanted to, but I lost inches AND am down a pants size. WOOT WOOT!!! This main seem like a vain [...]
My mom did a lot of wild and wonderful things when we were growing up, but of all of them, I think the Wild Thanksgiving Turkey was/is my favorite. There was the Easter Bunny, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Birthday Fairy and, of course, the Wild Thanksgiving Turkey. Every holiday in my house growing up [...]
As much as I love winter, I can’t help but long for the heat of summer. As my tan is (finally) beginning to fade, I’ve decided to turn to some alternative methods to keep my glow all year long. Since I really enjoy my wrinkle-free complextion and, let’s face it, have enough health issues as [...]
