Howdy!  Welcome to HollyHickman.com, where you’ll find tips and tidbits culled from years of good travel, good research and good eating.

I’m Holly.  You can find out more about me here, but in the meantime, know that I am half-Texan, half-Italian and all appetite.  I crave the kind of wonderful food that makes me and my body hum, but I also hanker for much more:  vast knowledge, beauty, warm relationships, vibrant health and the juiciest, most fulfilling life I can create.  This site aims to bring you the most life enhancing nuggets I’ve been able to suss out during my years as a reporter, a woman and an all-around bonne vivante.  I hope these tidbits help you as much as they’ve aided me.

Oh!  And if you’re interested in eating sustainable, clean, healthy foods outside your home, you’ll be delighted to know that there is, at last, a digital guidebook that lists more than 200 restaurants across the country that serve up organic meats, local produce and/or seasonal dishes.  I researched and wrote it during years of constant travel, and to my knowledge, there’s nothing out there of its scope and breadth.  Take your taste buds and vibrant health on a zippy and zesty adventure by clicking on this purty picture:

Enjoy perusing the site.

There’s the Get Cooking section, where we demystify the stove and give you actionable tips to save time and, more importantly, make your meals taste better.  (It’s all in the wrist, baby!)

There’s the Get Healthy Holly section, where we trust science, not hype.  I delve into scientific studies and give you quick, reliable answers to your food and health questions.

There’s the Get Wealthy section, where we get smart about money and endeavor to make investing as easy to understand as fashion.

There’s also the Get Going section, with tips on motivation, creativity, goal-setting…and on literally getting going.  From eco-honeymoons in yurts in Chile to the best hiking trails in the U.S., we’ll list places that will inspire, recharge and refresh you.

And then there’s Get Wise, a place for ideas, cocktail party conversation “cheat sheets,” and the sorts of stories you won’t find in the MSM.

Here’s a snippet from my first post:

Reason’s Greetings & Welcome to Holly Hickman’s site

by HOLLY HICKMAN on 12/17/2009

Howdy,

I’m Holly Hickman, author of Healthy Eats Here! and certified squawker.  I’m in Italy with family right now, personally propping up the local olive oil business by consuming great vats of it, but when I get back, we’re going to talk about living the juiciest, most well-informed, glorious lives we can conjure up.

I recently met an impressive young woman who had overcome great hardship to become an elementary school teacher.  Honored as Teacher of the Year, she said the following:

“In life, you don’t find yourself.  You make yourself.  You don’t find your path; you forge it.”

The universe has billions of years left.  We don’t.  Let’s make the most of it together, you and I, forging and creating our paths and slurping every last drop of life force.

See you in a few weeks!

To your health, to your joy and to your brilliance,

Holly