My mom doesn’t subscribe to my blog.  She doesn’t do things like that – technology has yet to woo her completely.  My dad has to remind her to check my site, which is fine, I think it’s actually cute.  He subscribes.  Thanks dad. Anyway, I was showing my mom my blog, as we all do when we want our mommies to say things like, “Ooh,...

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas… I hope this post finds you with a trimmed tree, mistletoe hanging, and yule logs a-burning (ok…not sure what that is, but it sounds good…San Diego Christmas!).  I hope you’ve purchased/received/made all the gifts for those on your list and I hope you have just the right bow to put on that...

That’s right.  It’s about that time.  It smells like fall, looks like fall, tastes like fall, feels like fall.  We’ve had rain, wind, cold nights and sunny, crisp days.  I am thankful for this.  To me, fall is the time that is most like a healthy human: it is our job (and our trajectory, one way or another) to grow, evolve, change, shift,...

Hi fellow followers of all things Ditty! Just wanted you to know…Yum Ditties is going through a change!  Yep, indeed.  Evolution at its finest.  Revolution at its meanest (what?).  You know what I mean.  We are taking Yum Ditties to the plastic surgeon and she is getting a FACE LIFT! Ok…not really…but the blog is preparing to undergo visual,...

The Universe is speaking, can you hear it?  Are you listening?  Is it just me? This evening, my mom and I went to USD’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice to hear Zainab Salbi speak, as part of their “Distinguished Lecture Series,” in conjunction with a three-day public forum titled, “Women, Media, Revolution.” ...

This is weird.  Steve Jobs passed away today.  My friend, Holly, and I were at Sephora this afternoon and a woman walked by saying, “my brother just text messaged me that Steve Jobs died.”  We both stopped, looked at each other, and shared a moment of disbelief and hope that the rumor mill had churned out something incorrect.  Ironically, I left my...

Dear Ditty followers… I have something to tell you.  You may first want to sit down, put your feet up, grab a drink.  Please don’t smirk, what I have to say is very serious… I’m…(wait for it)… working on my thesis!…!!!!!  I know, I know, it’s a MIRACLE (and miracles are always deserving of too many exclamation...