No time like the present to begin new habits for the new year. I decided since 2025 begins mid-week, to jumpstart my new health protocol stack on New Year’s Eve. Enter Hotworx. HOTWORX is a virtually instructed exercise program created for users to experience the many benefits of infrared heat absorption, while completing a 30-minute …
2024 Wrap-Up
It’s been quite a year! In review before we dive head-first into 2025, I thought we would review the year in the rearview mirror. Wellness My wellness journey always takes center stage, and 2024 was no exception. I added some new protocol to the biohacking stack, in pursuit of health span and longevity. Hooga Infrared …
Escape the 4th of July Chaos with your Noise Sensitive Dog
Fireworks, picnics, family and friends – the 4th of July is a celebration of everything best about summer…unless you have a noise sensitive dog. For our canine companions, the 4th can be the most stressful day of the year by far. It breaks my heart each year to see my dog, Mordecai, cowering in the …
Seattle Christmas Market
Seattle’s Christmas Market celebrates its second anniversary in 2024, running for a month from November 24th to December 24th. Presented by the same organizers of the Vancouver Christmas Market, which is a nod to the European holiday markets so famous throughout the continent. I love a good holiday outing – and admittedly, I have never …
2025 Planning
Are you a planner? I absolutely love dreaming up future plans and putting them on the calendar for the coming year – seeing all I have to look forward to. I break down my ambitions quarterly and try to be realistic about what can actually be achieved in that timeframe. In looking ahead, I don’t …
A Few of My Favorite Things…
Every year at the holidays I reminisce about favorite things from years gone by – but some tried and true favs always make the list. You don’t have to be Oprah to have a top 10, or top 100 list – and it definitely doesn’t just have to be at the holidays. My heart – …
Gratitude as a Strategy
This time of year, it’s easy to focus on what you have to be grateful for. The holiday reminders are everywhere – greeting cards, plaques, cards, posts – Thankful is the theme. But what about the rest of the year? How do we make gratitude a strategy we can employ everyday of the year? It’s …
Favorite YouTube Channels
Prior to the COVID-era lockdown, I can’t say I watched much on YouTube. I’d seen the random cat video, forwarded by a well-meaning coworker, and heard reference to clips on the news from time to time. However, during the isolation and subsequent remote work cycle beginning in 2020, I fell into the common routine of …
Blueprint Stack
This post is not sponsored, and no affiliate relationship exists between the author and Blueprint at the time of this post. Biohacking can be a complex affair. Though the benefits are unquestionably worth the effort, I’ve found myself over the years wishing someone would just make it easier to know what I should take, what …
Goat Chili
I’m always on the lookout for novel proteins for my dog, who eats between 7-12 different proteins each week. One of his favorites on rotation is goat meat. However, I rarely add it for myself. However, this past week my local small grocery happened upon ground goat from a supplier I buy other meats from. …