I’m packing for a week in Seville, following my mother’s trail on the last vacation she took almost exactly five years ago. An Odissi dancer, Mom had been entranced by a flamenco interpretation of...

How to write a tribute to two generations of women, who profoundly impacted my life! I think it would take me weeks to sort through all my favorite memories, stories and remembrances. But I thought...

My mother, a good person who loved her family, her friends, her church, her life, was robbed of all of it by Alzheimer’s Disease. And we were robbed of her. There were days in which she would have ...

Dolores, Babe, Liz, Mom, Aunt Dolores, Grandma, Dolo, D-lo, The Great Defender, and of course The Crazy Lady. All of these are nicknames for my mom. She has inherited many names over the years and ...

Let it emerge from the deepest parts of you unquestioned and as you begin to start exploring, writing, thinking, dreaming about what you desire, don’t simply go to the ideas you’ve already recycled.

March 21^st is around the corner, the first day of Spring, the New Year in ancient traditions and I should add, as the Parsis say, Navroze Mubarak… Happy New Year! A time of renewal, birth, rebirth and nature's glorious profusion of burgeoning color, scent and beauty.

not all skin damage happens on the beach or in the garden in the peak of summer. The dry and cold weather of winter, not to mention circulated indoor air, can wreak havoc on our skin, and often even hydrated and supple skin can become parched and cracked without a regular moisturizing routine in place.

2020 has been a doozy of a year and I know you’re ready to move on! Hindsight truly will become 2020 baby!!! If I’ve learned one thing through this pandemic, it’s that we are truly stronger, more c...

It’s simply impossible to talk about self-care, health and wellness, without also acknowledging that these last several weeks  have felt like we are a nation on the edge, a nation burning with pain, frustration and rage. A nation ripped apart by years of systemic racial injustice and inequity, police brutality and economic disparity on mind-boggling levels. And a nation whose exquisite democratic experiment is in danger of breaking apart.

Is all this COVID stress and anxiety making your skin wrinkly? Patchy and dry? Acne or eczema acting up? Psoriasis flaring again?

Well yes and no. No, stress and anxiety won’t quite lead to wrinkles, but the truth of the matter, is that the mind, body and emotions are thoroughly interconnected and affect each other in myriad ways. So yes, stress and anxiety and the resultant flood of hormones can indeed affect your skin in more ways than one.