Surprise is good for the brain: Irreverent Nordic craft art at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena’s Irreverent: Contemporary Nordic Craft exhibit is full of surprise, which is what the brain needs to stay elastic and resilient. Simply taking a new route to work or a different path in the park can help your brain remain elastic, so walking through an exhibit of Nordic crafts must be a serious stimulator.
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Come camote
Remember your grandparents eating camote y leche? You might not, unless you grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border. My grandpa would mash up the sweet potatoes with milk, sometimes adding in cinnamon. Sweet, warm, mushy, easy-to-cook comfort food that nourishes a sweet tooth.
I offered this delicacy to my boyfriend, and he thought it was wacked [...]
How to look your best: ask friends and relatives to help
It’s hard to know what we look like, and how we could improve, right? Fashion mags are disconcerting to lots of people, and so a lot of people get stuck with a mirror and nothing else as a way to judge what’s happening in the self-improvement department. I have a friend who can’t even look [...]
If you live [or work] around fast-food places you're in danger of becoming obese
If you live or work around fast food places, you’ve gotta watch out for weight gain. The average California resident lives in a neighborhood in which fast food restaurants outnumber grocery stores and produce vendors by 4.5 to 1, according to a policy brief prepared by Policy Link, the California Center for Public Advocacy, and [...]
How to deal with family: Media & Juice
This holiday season, my microfamily (mother and brother) stayed with my boyfriend and me. Yikes. I moved in with him in December, and my family came to stay with us.
Movie watching saved us. We saw Me and You and Everyone We Know, Mongul, Slumdog Millionaire, MILK, and The Dark Knight. We had plenty to discuss [...]