I think most of us would agree the men in our lives are hard to shop for; either they don’t like a lot of “stuff”, they are particular, or their wish list includes big ticket items. To find a unique, meaningful gift is a challenge for every holiday and special occasion, year after year. We’ve […]
Surfing Can Change Your Life Surfing changed my life, and I’m not even a good surfer. I started surfing when I was 34. I have always been enamored with it, even if I didn’t know why. I guess it is the concept of being propelled forward by a pure force of nature that tugged at […]
In Costa Rica, the towns are busy preparing to ring in the new year with tamales. In the grocery stores, every one greets each other with “Feliz Año Nuevo!” and “Pura Vida!” Pure life. Let’s enter 2014 with the intention of living a pure, authentic life. Let’s make this year about taking care of our […]
The Blue Zones Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest Recently, I ready the book titled “Blue Zones” and felt moved to summarize the high points into a Blue Zones Book Summary so that I could share with many of the busy people I know that I feel would benefit from […]
What Is A TICO*? To be a Tico is to live an authentic life and to have a passion for living. Tico is the self-appointed term Costa Rican’s gave themselves nearly a century ago. The fact that they chose a name for themselves other than the designated ‘Costa Rican’ like all other countries in the […]
TICO* Has Impacted Many Aspects of My Life When asked to be a guest writer for TICO*, I’ve struggled with what to start with first. I’m a mother of two, yoga instructor, wanna-be health nut (it’s a process!), avid traveler, and a big fan of this lovely oil for my body. So instead of jumping […]
Eliminating Mail It is an understatement to say that I am passionate about simplifying. Call it streamlining, optimizing, OCD, orderly, minimalistic- but the elimination of clutter in one’s life, especially in today’s day and age when we are inundated by it, is essential to a balanced life. It creates more free time, which I refer […]
Not All Who Wander Are Lost In May of 2011, I had had enough. The previous five years had been spent in very public executive roles, ramping up new ventures for other people. All of them, at their core, were about helping others, so I can say that I had passion about what I was […]