Jump start resolution with smoothies
Starting a resolution to eat healthier is never that easy. For some, it is not knowing how to start and for others, it is easy to fall back into old habits. With a little effort and a willingness not to give up, success with your goals can be achieved. This week, I offer three recipes that will assist you on your journey to a healthier lifestyle.
Annual Cleaning of the Car produces many treasures
Welcome to 2014. To celebrate the New Year, I decided to do my annual Cleaning of the Car. OK, it's not really annual, because it's happened once in eight years. So it's like octo-annual. Yeah. So, you know, it wasn't always like this. I once drove a nice car. It wasn't mommy-like at all. I kept it clean and shiny and French-fry free. It didn't smell like feet. It didn't have mud stained carpet or dog slobbered windows.
Broadway By the Bay: An outstanding 2014 season
Broadway By the Bay arrives this year with four top Broadway creating an impressive season for musical theatre lovers.
Bethlehem comes to Gilroy church
This Christmas season, parishioners of Gilroy's St. Mary Roman Catholic Church received a special gift to enhance their worship services. Displayed beside the altar is an 8-foot square representation of Bethlehem as it may have looked at the time of Jesus' birth.
Here’s to your hands
A round of applause for your hands! They're the only tool I know that can do everything from typing a resume to steering a car to catching a fastball.
Financial resolutions for the New Year
About 45 percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, according to a survey from the University of Scranton. But the same survey shows that only 8 percent of us actually keep our resolutions. Perhaps this low success rate isn’t such a tragedy when our resolutions involve things like losing a little weight or learning a foreign language. But when we make financial resolutions - resolutions that, if achieved, could significantly help us in our pursuit of our important long-term goals - it’s clearly worthwhile to make every effort to follow through.
2014 Real Estate Predictions
We're not big on forecasts for the sake of forecasts. But since we do happen to live and breathe real estate, we thought it made sense to at least give a few high-level observations about where the market is likely headed next year.
Come Visit Mount Madonna School
Tues, Jan. 14: Campus Tour at Mount Madonna School. 9:30am. If you're looking for a school with small classes and learning that goes beyond the classroom walls, come find out more about our nurturing, Montessori-influenced PreK program, and college preparatory 1st–12th grade curriculum. MMS features a 355-acre campus, hands-on science labs, outdoor adventure and life skills, national and international travel, marine biology studies on Catalina Island, mixed-grade buddy program and visual and performing arts. Contact Benna at (408) 847-2717 or [email protected]
“Legally Blonde” the musical at Mount Madonna School
Fri-Sun, Jan. 24-26, “Legally Blonde” the musical. Mount Madonna”s high school production with 3 shows: 7:00pm, Jan. 24-25; and 2:00pm, Jan. 26. Entertaining and at times edgy, ironic and bitingly funny, within this story’s comedy looms a message of empowerment, believing in one’s own capabilities and internal fortitudes, be you woman or man, blonde or some other hair color. All seats reserved. Tickets available at (408) 847-2717. Hawks' Nest Theater at MMS, 445 Summit Rd, Mount Madonna. More information at MountMadonnaSchool.org
Women’s mini-retreat
A mini-retreat for women will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 25 at Burkland Hall, Advent Lutheran Church, 16870 Murphy Ave. in Morgan Hill. Led by Pastor Lee Tyler, it is intended for women who are looking to refresh and nourish their spiritual life. The focus of the retreat will be on discerning God's nurture of inner growth. Lunch provided. $20. All welcome. Details: (408) 779-3551.



















