Lifestyle Picks

I selected this non-traditional potato salad recipe for the SacFoodies potluck because it’s a healthy and delicious twist on a classic potato salad (and it also happens to be one of my favorite client recipes). It’s made with creamy non-fat Greek yogurt instead of mayonnaise so you can have seconds with no guilt. Fellow...

If you're in the Sacramento area and need your car washed this weekend, why not help out Chako Pit Bull Advocacy and Rescue? You'll get a nice, shiny clean car and Chako will be able to keep doing the work they do to change the misconceptions of pit bu...

This review originally appeared in the June edition of the Northern & Central California Cruisin’ News published out of Folsom, California – mgSacramento, California -- The 2011 Jaguar XJL Supercharged sedan is what I call a HOLY BLEEP! vehicle...

One of my bookshelvesI feel like I have been spending the last six months trying to figure out my new reading life. I know, 'reading life' sounds weird. Let's just say that blogging has flipped what used to be yank a book off of my shelf and go, into s...

My daughter and her spouse gave me a refrigerator magnet that repeats the oft delivered message, “Age is a State of Mind.” I’ve written about this in previous blogs with the response that age is relative to a person’s state of mind but it is al...

Water Wise Plants Can Be Soothing To the Spirit And The Water Bills There are some less than accurate perceptions of all water-wise plants not being “user-friendly”—you know, sharp and pointy, not things you want to go touch, etc. Today … C...

So as my time at the Sacramento Natural Food's Co-op came to a close I found myself daunted with so many conclusions and product knowledge ideas that it was hard to even articulate them into cohesive thoughts, and the main conclusion I drew is how I wa...

By Amelia Neufeld With all the angst about the future of the Sacramento Kings, Girls on the Grid decided to find out more about the guys from Sacramento’s other professional sports team, the Sacramento River Cats. The River Cats, the Triple-A affiliate for the Oakland A’s, are in their 12th year playing at Raley...

It has been a crazy year for weather. With our winter stretching well into JUNE, everything that grows got off to a late start. This time last year Poor Girl Kimberly and I had gone up to pick our own berries. We were able to get blueberries at $3.50 p...

I wrote this post as part of the Parenting In America Carnival hosted by Adventures in Mommyhood: Mommy Outnumbered. The Carnival is running from July 3-10, 2011. This is post number two in a series of three. You can find the first post here. I ...