Today, my husband and I join other special couples who have been able to keep it together for 20 years: Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks, Kyra Segdwick and Kevin Bacon, and Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest among others. Yes, today is our 20th Wedding Anniversary!! Twenty years ago a very young, tall, dark and [...]

Once we decided to bite the financial bullet and take a jaunt across the Atlantic to the Old Continent, we discarded any notions of luxury and comfort so we could afford to see as much as we could cram into three weeks. From the outset we decided to visit seven cities in four countries: Rome, Florence and Venice in Italy; Madrid and Barcelona in Spain; Paris, France, London and Oxford in England … And since both of us are in our late 40’s, and our kids 14 and 17, it was also one heck of a Euro-family-fitness challenge Amazing Race style.

Hopefully you ate enchiladas 'till your heart's content and only had a couple of margaritas today. Cinco de Mayo, though very remotely connected to US history, has become a commercialized made-up holiday for many in the Unites States. As a Mexican-born and raised bi-cultural US citizen (Whew! That's a mouth full!) I'm still asking myself why this [...]