Everyone cares about how their hair looks. Men and women spend a great deal of time with their hair: products, style, self-assessment, self-judgement (i.e., “if only”). Including choosing the best products for your hair, your food choices affect each of the 150,000 hair follicles on your head. Here are eight top foods that feed your [...]

Our late Spring rains soaked seeds and now Golden Poppies are covering ground all over California. While the poppy is native to California, it is found along the entire western coast of the United States as far north as Washington State and as far south as Mexico, in addition it has also be found in [...]

Years ago, when I was Director of The San Francisco Chronicle Great Outdoors Adventure Fair, a publicist set up a meeting at Sea Trek Ocean Kayaking Center in Sausalito. While I’m a “water baby” from a family of Olympic contenders in swimming competitions, I’d never kayaked. During our conversation, Diane Christensen (the publicist) noted that [...]

The pomegranate is an extraordinary fruit, steeped in history: the number of seeds (roughly 613) found in a single fruit was said by ancient scholars to correspond to the 613 commands of the Hebrew Torah. It is traditional to consume pomegranates on Rosh Hashana because the pomegranate, with its numerous seeds, symbolizes fruitfulness. It has [...]

Every day we are bombarded with information about breast cancer and fundraisers for breast cancer “research,” even from stores such as Safeway.