Author: soma

This is my new favorite soothing eveving tea: Lemon verbena Raspberry leaf Passion flower Chamomile pinch of Stevia leaf

One Defense Up juice and two organic apricots. Two organic bananas. One GoMacro sesame-date energy bar. Make cup of white tea. Teabag was washed about 8 seconds with hot water then steeped for ~ 35 seconds. One large bowl of organic brown basmati rice with 1 large tsp. of chlorella, a dash of ACV, 1…

I thought I would share with readers how, lately, I’ve been making my rice: I start out by cooking a couple cups of organic brown basmati rice in a rice cooker. When the rice cooker finishes its good to leave it sit for at least another 10 minutes because the brown rice is still actually…

Its late at night and because, as often happens, I over-restricted my calories today (estimation was around 1200) and am finding it difficult to sleep. I decided to make a bowl of organic oatmeal from quick oats which I read somewhere are the most easily-digestible form. Plus the fact that they cook in a rice…

Today I visited a Trish McEvoy counter and had an artist apply their Dual Sunlit Bronzer. I had been wanting to go back to TME to try their bronzer because about a year ago I tried and ended up really liking one of their blushes a lot. As I expected, TME’s bronzer is kickass. You…

The other day at the makeup counter an artist did a wonderful job applying Dior’s new “It-line” eyeliner and the result was amazing. The new Dior Addict It-line is very vibrant. The fine brush is an excellent tool for applying very precise lines. Unfortunately I found that the liner does not really last very well…

Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty – Sanskriti Music and Dance Festival 2014 Part 1 Here’s an attempt at embedding the video. (Please be patient as it may take a while for playback to start because Hostgator doesn’t seem to allow customers to stream video properly.) Converted for web HTML5-compatible format with Any Video Converter.

I just started watching a new drama the heroine of which is said to be a Cinderella who lives in a 6-tatami apartment. I investigated this and its actually true that in Japan room sizes can be given in terms of the number of tatami mats that fill the space. There’s a really cool site…

At the salon the other day we were discussing chia seeds and someone there made a comment like “Its so slimy!” indicating they didn’t like them. Agua de Chia is not slimy. I mean, yes the seeds are somewhat mucilaginous, but that is what gives Agua de Chia its richness and fullness. My guess is…

Read this intriguing bit of information today: It has been speculated that the original evolutionary function of hemoproteins was electron transfer in primitive sulfur-based photosynthesis pathways in ancestral cyanobacteria-like organisms before the appearance of molecular oxygen.[1] source: Wikipedia article: Heme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heme)