by niccolapiccola | Dec 5, 2013 | crafts, Eating Italian, food, Quick dinner ideas
I absolutely LOVE the month of December! Think Advent calendars, sending Christmas cards, crafting, Christmas caroling, making cookies, eating said cookies and playing holiday games like White Elephant/Bastard Christmas and Elf on the Shelf, better known in my...
by niccolapiccola | Oct 29, 2013 | food, slow cooking, soups
For the last, gosh I don’t know, seven or eight years, my best friend Lynn D. and I have been obsessed with the Biggest Loser. This is when I don’t mind admitting to you that I watch TV every Tuesday night not only for the inspiring stories, training...
by niccolapiccola | Oct 25, 2013 | books, yoga
What is Beyond Yoga you ask? I have no clue, but I love that brand of yoga pants! Haha! Students (thanks Elizabeth!) have been asking me to suggest my favorite yoga books, beyond Patanjali’s Sutras, that are very hard for most students, never mind non-yoga...
by niccolapiccola | Oct 22, 2013 | food, Quick dinner ideas, yoga
The first time I ever tasted a pomegranate I thought I was in fruit heaven!…when in actuality, I was in Mysore, India, in the dead heat of an afternoon summer, at the outdoor market in town, crushed within a mass of sweaty people, merchants yelling at me to buy...
by niccolapiccola | Oct 10, 2013 | Peace
Once again I learned today how short life can be. A woman I never had the pleasure to meet left her body this morning and she inspired and changed more lives in the shortest amount of time… ever. She was a fighter, who was determined to live everyday to its...
