A few weekends ago, my daughter and I bought some delicious carrots at our farmer’s market.  It ended up being a cold and rainy Saturday afternoon so we used some of them to make our own little twist on Mark Bittman’s Carrot Bread recipe in How to Cook Everything.  Here is our variation below.  It [...]

  I am back from a very fun and HOT (over 100+ degrees every day) weekend at the Coachella Music Festival. I went to volunteer at the Full of Life Flatbread booth, promote Adesso and Happy Hemp and, of course, to hear some great music.  All of those objectives were happily achieved! The Coachella Music Festival is two [...]

I have had the great fortune to welcome Tara Miko Grayless, founder of Happy Hemp and Director of Sales for Adesso, into my life in the last year. Tara Miko is an amazing business woman, has a great spirit and loves to make people laugh! In 2010, she founded Happy Hemp after 10 years in [...]

The last week of March I had the great fortune of taking my daughter to London for a week to meet my new 5-month old nephew. We went with few plans other than to meet the adorable, new addition to our family and to see some of the main sights. We were graced with insanely [...]

    Adesso Creative Director Liberty and I were supposed to be on-site for a two-day photo shoot in the Santa Ynez Valley on Monday and Tuesday.  We also had some brand brainstorming and the need to start designing the Fall 2012 collection on our plates.  So, we decided to head up to the area on [...]