• Clever Logos

    I’m a sucker for good marketing I will admit, but it has to be good. I can be swayed by a clever tv commercial or magazine ad, but… if an ad annoys me I will go out of my way…

  • 7 Ways to Keep Your Breasts Healthy

    During Breast Cancer Awareness month this October I thought I would share an important article I found on the Women’s Health Magazine website on 7 ways to keep your breasts healthy. I’m trying to abide by all of these tips…

  • Why I Detest Grocery Shopping

    Sadly, grocery shopping is something that I do almost every day. I try to plan ahead, but I usually forget something each time I shop, or once home again, discover something else we’re suddenly out of, and so the very…

  • 40 Second Rant

    We all need to rant every now and then. I like that More magazine (you know, the magazine “For Grown-up Women with Smarts|Spirit|Style”) features a 40 second rant in their issues. I think 40 seconds is the perfect amount of…

  • My Bad

    I’ve been thinking about why good people do bad things lately. No, not because I’ve done anything bad…necessarily. Me? I would never do anything bad…would I? The truth is I have done some “bad” things in my life. I’ve lied…

  • Just A Little Heart Attack

    Ok, listen up ladies. This is serious. Please, please, please look after yourselves. It’s  the same idea as the put-your-oxygen-mask-on-first rule. You have to look after yourself first in order to look after everyone else, so come on, learn the…

  • 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee

    I gave up drinking coffee 5 or 6 years ago. Why? Why, would anyone in their right mind give up the ol’ day starter, jitter juice, life blood, Juan Valdez’s Best? Well, it started with a cleanse I did where…

  • Svaha Spirit Series~The Great Boat Lift of 9/11

    Here’s a part of the story of 9/11 that I had never heard about before. I only remember seeing  people running up and away from lower Manhatten but of course there was the option of escaping over the water too.…

  • Kick’em When You’re Down

    People often do uncharacteristic things when they are newly divorced or separated. Maybe they buy a flashy car, get drunk too often, sleep with people they don’t know, start a blog…but for me it was kick boxing. I may or…

  • What Day Is It?

    Thank you Pooh and Piglet! I really needed this reminder today…         ~~

  • Svaha Spirit Sunday ~ Underwater Astonishments

    “Today we’ve only explored about 3 percent of what’s out there in the ocean. Already we’ve found the world’s highest mountains, the world’s deepest valleys, underwater lakes, underwater waterfalls … . There’s still 97 percent, and either that 97 percent…

  • D’oh!

    I searched frantically through my purse for my sunglasses while driving in town the other day. They weren’t in my purse; they weren’t in the little sunglass pop down thingy conveniently built into my Jetta. Where the heck were they?…

  • Hope For Hayley

    Headaches. Who hasn’t experienced a whopper headache at one point in their life? I’m sure you all understand how horrible it is to have a headache. Now imagine that headache but intensified by a hundred. Now imagine having that same…

  • Fun During The Olympics

    How do you have fun during the Olympics? Me? Well, I squeeze on my leotard and gymnastic uniform from when I was 12 and jump off the couch, landing with my arms up as I turn to all sides to…

  • Svaha Spirit Series ~ Bringing Joy to Everyday Moments

    Our tag line and MO here at Tara Cronica is finding lyrical beauty in everyday happenings which is pretty closely related to bringing joy to everyday moments I thought. That’s why this little video from a TED talk audition caught my…

  • You Used To Be A Sperm

    Before you go getting too judgmental regarding the picture I’ve chosen, know this…there were some really gross choices and I went with the best available. Trust me on this. So, life happens apparently, which is why I don’t have a…

  • Family Ties

    Tomorrow I am attending a weekend-long family reunion. We have not gathered for a reunion in ten years (unless you count weddings, funerals and anniversary parties). At this gathering one of our cousins is going to share some of the…

  • Svaha Spirit Series ~ Danny and Annie

    A simple but powerful love story. Grab a tissue before you watch this. Danny Perasa and his wife, Annie, came to StoryCorps to recount their twenty-seven-year romance. As they remember their life together from their first date to Danny’s final…

  • New Rule

    I’ve been reading Bill Maher’s book The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head up Their Ass and its has had me laughing out loud more than once. Bill cracks me up. The…

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