Coach Paul leading a visualization session with some of our swimmers. Wrote this a couple months ago, but never posted! Here’s a written record of my first dose of club coaching: I’m a freshly certified club coach. I took my first few tours of the coach’s hospitality room last weekend in Tempe, Arizona. We were …
If you read my last post, you know I’ve been raised with a certain type of Christmas. A holiday always held in San Antonio with its own protocol. Never with snow on the ground. We always prayed for sleet, because that seemed festive in the great state of Texas. Now I’m a married lady and …
Chandlers take Christmas seriously. I grew up thinking it was normal for the entire family to rush to the garage to witness the descent of Christmas decor from the attic. We have a home video of my dad and brother handing boxes down the ladder. The camera pans around the garage to children growing giddier …
Arizona Homecoming happened a couple weekends back. I’m on the road to recovery. The weekend was exhaustingly fun. Aside from not getting enough sleep, I think the emotional high is what’s the most draining. So many of my Wildcat brothers and sisters came back into town. The numbers seem to multiply each year, as we …
I read a Q&A with Baz Luhrmann in the WSJ a few days ago. The guy is a creative genius. Anyone who can envision the aesthetically-scrumptious Moulin Rouge or make opulent dreams reality on the silver screen in The Great Gatsby has my full attention. Even his name Luhrs me right in….(crickets). I’m not writing …
I’m Annie and I am addicted to new things (much to MG’s dismay). Ghandi would not approve of my smorgasbord of material possessions. I have never bought a LV or a Coach bag because I cannot get past the sticker shock (and to my not-chic self, I like the bags at Marshall’s and thrift shops …
I’m late late late on this, but I wanted to walk you through our Halloween 2014 inspiration and creation since we pour absurd amounts of time into our costumes each year. We thought 2014 was going to be a year to slack on Halloween, but as soon as we agreed to swim in the Fastest …
Character flaws. I have plenty. Every week, a new one broadcasts its ugly mug. I do not completely loathe myself, mainly I just surprise myself. Most recently one of my bosses at Anthropologie made a remark over our walkie talkies (yeah, we’re very CIA) criticizing me. Did she need to do that for every …
Had to endure this miserable view with dinner at the Hilton El Conquistador’s fantastic restaurant, Epazote. I’m a food writer, faux sure. I’m going to say it and shatter the facade I wear into restaurants. I did not choose food writing, but the editor of the local magazine I freelance for seems to think it …
The nutrition bar market is crowded. After watching Fed Up (watch it!) and reading It Starts With Food (read it!), I am always checking ingredients to make sure the products I love most in the world are made with wholly good stuff. Sadly, lots of the products I’m in love with are not. i.e. alkalized …