There are two sides of forgiveness; sometimes we only remember one, sometimes we don't remember either of them. What are they? Forgiveness for yourself AND forgiveness for others...

Bah humbug. There's nothing that gets my eyes rolling and me grouchier than seeing the inevitable mountains of blog posts after Thanksgiving filled with words like, "Detox! Cleanse! De-Bloat! Undo Damage! Juice!" Even before the holiday, I overheard another trainer...

For some reason, feeling and knowing deep down that you are enough is one of the hardest things to learn. Even the most self-assured confident person will feel this self-doubt from time to time. Especially in a day and time when the social media filter can make your life feel like it doesn't

I've said this many a time before, but it holds true: you don't know what it's truly like in someone else's shoes. Everyone has their own battles and circumstances. It's much easier to impose your advice and opinion on things when you're looking at something through a window- it's much harder to live it on the other side and things are always more complicated than they may seem. Just because you've been through the woods doesn't mean you know another's journey through them. With all these recent horrific events going...

With the holidays drawing near and the damp, chilly weather, all I want to do is cozy up. This nesting feeling is calling for a lot of reflection on what's going on in my life and how I'm feeling. So, what is going on?

The other week, I found myself longingly staring into the bakery case of one of my favorite local coffeeshops, until the barista snapped me out of my dream-like haze. Totally caught staring. At some pumpkin olive oil bread. I think I was staring at it as...

Rome was never on top of the excitement chart in terms of the cities in Italy I wanted to visit. "Too touristy," I thought. I had heard about the headaches of the lines at the Colosseum, the summer tourism crowds, and so on, so I was braced for having to hold back my impatient New Yorker self. But the charm of Rome turned out to be in all the in-betweens. Of course, we...

"Life starts over when it gets crisp in the fall." Well, Fitzgerald, I just want to eat crisps in the fall. I don't know why this was never a menu option off the top of my head before, but ever since I made my Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam Crisp, I have been craving eating out of a toasty little skillet for all my breakfasts. By the way, who else is in disbelief that it's already November? The Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam Crisp was perfect for summer- bursting with tart berry flavor and sweetness. But this persimmon crisp is everything fall flavors should be: warming, toasty, and a kick of spice...

Happy Halloween weekend! 

The leaves have almost fully turned, yet it's hard to believe that the end of October is already here. The holiday season is about to come at us with full force, and I feel nowhere prepared. I've got 3 trips between now and Thanksgiving, so it really seems like time is flying by. Speaking of...

When people think of the prospect of changing their lifestyles towards a healthier direction, it seems overwhelmingly daunting or like a giant challenge to tackle. I have a secret for you. It's all really possible. 

If you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look all the way up at the peak, it's going to seem like it's grower taller by the second, right before your eyes. But if you look...

You know those mornings where you want something fun to make for breakfast, but really are feeling lazy? This is how these matcha buckwheat pancakes came about.

Being the queen of shortcuts for efficiency, I like to keep some homemade premixed flours on hand for quick breakfasts. I had a few servings left of my original vegan, gluten-free buckwheat pancake mix (just mixing together all the dry ingredients) and was planning on making myself a matcha latte, when I thought, "why not just do both in one?"

After seeing the beauty of Switzerland in the mixture of urban and nature in Zürich, and then the smaller mountainside villages in Malans and Chur, I wasn't sure how much more this stunning country could charm me. Then we arrived in the little town named Lugano...

Whenever I see sweet flavors mixed in with typically savory dishes, I usually flinch. While I think some of these pairings are awesome, I simply have not had the palette for that clash of two flavors. I then first got a taste for it at a restaurant...

When compiling this roundup, I noticed that I had bookmarked a lot of links on lady power this week. Or, to use the word that some people have an unfortunate misunderstanding of: FEMINISM.

So, I decided to make this a special edition of Favorite Friday Finds: #LadyBoss edition. 

Nobody is a fool here. We all know the duality of social media. The real life that occurs offscreen, and the (usually) heavily filtered, perfect version that appears on our Instagram pages. Lately there's been an uprising in making a point of criticizing the too "perfect" Instagram accounts- a hilarious...

After landing on our flight from New York, we had a few short hours to kill in Milan before having to catch our train to Zürich. Milan is typically known for being a smaller metropolitan city, that is mostly a hub for business and shopping. It also has a reputation for being a bit anticlimactic. Most people say that a day or...

This chocolate peanut-butter coconut granola is gluten-free and vegan, and you can easily substitute or add in customized ingredients of whatever you have on hand to make your own version of it. The chocolate peanut-butter is a classic combination, but I threw in some coconut chips, flaxseeds, and pepitas to bump up the healthy fats and give it more of a crunch. Lately, I have also been loving quinoa in my granola, to add some healthy nutrients and a deliciously nutty crunch to it. 

When I realized that we were going to have to trim our time in Florence down to just one day, my face looked like the the really sad, depressed emoji. During college, I was supposed to study abroad in this city, but due to life circumstances, I had to drop out of the program last minute. So, Florence always held a special place on my bucket list as a city I couldn't miss.

Only 24 hours in one of the most popular European cities? We were on a mission to do it all, and...