Journal

I've often wondered, is anxiety -- defined as ongoing worries and intrusive, uneasy thoughts -- an innate part of being human? For the unlucky among us who seem to be genetically predisposed to anxiety, or anyone else who fal […]

As some of you know, before I started Breakaway Matcha I had a previous life as a cookbook writer. I still cook all the time, but I don't record what I cook now -- I just do it. I've thought hard about publishing som […]

If Aphrodite -- the Greek goddess of love -- had a kitchen in the clouds, I am fairly certain that she’d be whipping up frothy green mugs of matcha, just like the rest of us plebeian instagrammers. Why matcha, you […]

At birth, we are about about 80 percent water by weight. As we age, we just keep losing more water. Yikes.  Fetus ~ 94% Newborns ~78% Infants ~ 75% Children ~ 70% Adults ~ 60% Elderly ~ 50%* There really […]

It can begin under any number of situations: nodding over my laptop at 2:00pm, watering the plants in the cool of the morning, or hunkered in on a rainy afternoon, reading a book from cover to cover. Maybe I’m sitt […]