My husband Anthony Anthony Garone, our son Gabe, Gabe's best friend Owen, our friend Rob Muller, and I collaborated on Anthony's "weird music" version of Angels We Have Heard on High. Have a merry Christmas and enjoy this song like you've never heard it before. 😀🎄

This. I've read Gone With the Wind over a dozen times, starting as a teenager and most recently in my 30s. It grows richer with each read as I see the characters with greater depth.

End-of-year book roundup! Here's what I read in 2025. Give me your recommendations of what to read in 2026! I like just about any genre but am especially hoping to read more Christian/Catholic content next year.

Our new rabbit is an absolute nut. Finally caught him on video doing his little racetrack circuit in the living room.

I've always wanted to make a bûche de Noël (yule log cake) and this is the year I finally accomplished it. Happy New Year!

Fitness is what you make it. I'm starting the new year by putting my walking pad in this storage closet. Not the most ideal solution, but it'll get more use here than propped on its side in the garage (where it was before).

My favorite winter hat is a beret, but someone will always--ALWAYS--comment that I look French. Come on people, get some new stereotypes! I could be an artist! A jazz musician! A military dissident! Why does it always have to be French?

Me if I said yes to all the supplement offers I get as a nutrition writer

This is truly nuts. I never think of my hometown of Phoenix as having very distinctive speech patterns, but this quiz still placed me here! Try it!

Got questions about the newly released 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans? My fresh-off-the-press piece for Health shares what's changed and what's stayed the same. health.com/new-dietary-gu…

Be nice at work. Be friendly. Be a real person. Especially if you work remote. WFH is lonely & weird. Being friendly makes it so much better. Some ppl just want to get to the point in email/slack, but friendliness greases the professional wheels in ways that benefit everyone.

For EatingWell Magazine I wrote about how my favorite eating plan--the Mediterranean diet--affects your cholesterol. No big surprise, it can play a role in lowering it! Here's why. eatingwell.com/how-the-medite…

A relationship w/a neighbor has been kinda strained the last few yrs due to political differences. Last week she made us her family's recipe for cabbage rolls. I returned her dish with a homemade coconut cream pie (her favorite). This, I think, is how we heal this country.

Just thinking about the time an angry reader wrote me a nasty email for not including coconut in a roundup of nut milks 🥥😂

I see this as confirmation of the "all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose" Scripture. As a Christian, I can attest that belief in a good and hopeful future makes a huge difference in my life.

Anybody else missing Christmas already?

What do people who lose weight *really* eat? My latest piece for Lose It! shares the most common protein choices among LoseIt! members who lost 50+ pounds. loseit.com/articles/lose-…

Since Arizona doesn't do daylight savings, no one from other states ever knows what time it is here. So often I say yes to a meeting at a certain time and then get an invite for the wrong time. I would like daylight savings to go away just so I don't have to deal w/this. 😂