Wild: From Lost to Found on The Pacific Crest Trail {Book Club}

Wild {Book Club}

This month our book club read Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. Wild is a memoir written by a women whose life is set into a tailspin at age twenty-two after losing her young mother to cancer. Cheryl describes her failed attempts at keeping her siblings and her [...]

GMO? OMG! Prop 37

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A very intelligent and talented friend of ours, Lisa Becker (author of Click: An Online Love Story) met with us and a small group of friends earlier this week to have our own morning discussion about GMO’s and Propostion 37. We are so grateful and lucky to have her guest contribute on Pier to Peer sharing her [...]

Drop, Cover & Hold On ~ It’s Shakeout Day!

Shakeout!

DROP, COVER and HOLD ON! Today, October 18th, at 10:18am millions of Californians will be practicing an earthquake drill called The Great California Shakeout. Will you? The Great California Shakeout is not just practiced in schools, but companies and individuals will be participating to generate state-wide awareness, as well to prepare for the next “big one.” This means that [...]

{Book Club} Gone Girl

Gone Girl

  My absolute favorite benefits of being in a book club are spending quality time with my girlfriends, drinking wine and getting lost in conversations we probably never would have had were it not for reading the books together. It’s fun being able to go to a friend and say “Can you believe it? Did you see that coming?!”  I love having inside jokes that only [...]

2012 Fall Fashion Trends

2012 Fall Fashion Trends

I have been looking forward to writing this article about Fall fashion trends since mid-August, but every time I sat down to write it, I start to sweat and my motivation goes out the window. I don’t start to sweat because I am nervous. My fellow So-Cal friends likely know what the problem is. It’s [...]

Few Fall Favorites…

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  Fall Favorites… crisp air apple baked desserts pumpkin carving pumpkin pies & pumpkin spiced lattes fall decor football adreneline leaves changing colors sweater weather the smell of fireplaces burning on a cold night homemade pies the sound of crunchy leaves hot chocolate the color orange back-to-school TV fall season premiers leather coats bolder hair [...]

Body Back Guide for Women & *GIVEAWAY!!*

Body Back

{This giveaway is now closed! Congratulations to our winner, Kristina!} Last month Kimberly and I had the privilege of meeting an amazing mother of four and author, Heather Porter. She recently wrote her first book Body Back: The Mother’s Handbook to Medical, Physical and Emotional Well-Being. Sharing fifteen years of personal as well professionals experiences from [...]

{Friday Favorites} Beyond the Typical Back-to-School Supplies

Not Your Typical Back-to-School Favorites

Goodness knows that I am a sucker for school supplies. I get all excited about new binders, crisp folders, fresh boxes of crayons, reams of construction paper, wide ruled 3-ring binder paper, new books, pink erasers and  glue sticks. The excitement over the school supplies is one of the many things that got me psyched [...]

30 Things Every Woman Should Have & Know by The Time She’s 30

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Last week I turned THIRTY! For awhile, I feared my thirties for no particular reason other than the stigma of becoming older. However, when I take the time to reflect on what is present in my life and the new experiences I am about to gain, I feel excited and have a sense of both accomplishment and new [...]

Deven’s Closet Staple: Chambray Shirt

Chambray Shirt

  One of my absolute favorite things in my closet is my chambray shirt. It’s timeless, classic and amazingly versatile. Whenever I’m having one of those “I have nothing to wear” days, I turn to my chambray shirt and pair it with just about anything else in my closet. Lately, I’ve been wearing it with [...]