// March 14th, 2011 // 6 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!, Mai News
If you’re like me, you want to know how you can help- now, and fast. Here are Mai chosen 5 fashionable, easy, and even FREE ways of how we can offer our support and love to our fellow brothers and sisters out there in Japan:
// February 28th, 2011 // 21 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!, Feel Good Fashion, Mai one and only Mom- Oliiivia
Dear God, thanks for choosing Olivia to be my mom. And God, I pray she never ends up on my show.
P.S. She wore this to church in Harrisburg, PA.
The picture had to be taken 4 times. Why?
“Mom, get off the rug so I can get your shoes in the pic.”
“No. Mommy want it in. It’s da Purple Carpet, more famous for me.”
// January 4th, 2011 // 6 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!
My birthday vlog to you all. Freaking heart you all like crazy.
// October 8th, 2010 // 21 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!, Pray It Forward
..is that it leads you to better news.
Last week, a group of hope-filled people gathered together at 10 AM on Runyon Canyon to put up Prayer Box 3.0. Because words can’t even describe how the amazing way it all happened, I have this to show you instead:
I still can’t get the memory out of my head. Different people from all parts of the city coming together to help and watch faith in action. It couldn’t have been a more beautiful day watching the painted designs from Emiliano Moreno match the opening sky, and the actual sun painted by my brother Daniel peek out between the clouds. My favorite was filling the box with prayers from the old box, and having people who brought their children write out prayers to fill the new box.
// September 20th, 2010 // 13 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!, Pray It Forward
I still can’t believe my story of finding James, designer of Prayer Box 3.0 took place just a few weeks ago. The next part to this story gets even better.
The night James W. Thompson and I met, we said the best grace over our yummy burgers and sweet potato fries: that this Prayer Box would be brought to life through a collaborative community effort. It wasn’t too long before James had an exact image in his mind of how this box could look, with even his own personal meaning:
// September 17th, 2010 // 54 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!, Pray It Forward
There have been many incredible stories in my life where I ask is that “Odd? or God?” This one was no exception.
As many of you read a few posts back, my prayer box was recently vandalized and destroyed. It was incredibly disheartening to me when I first discovered the remains. But after receiving help from various strangers MERE SECONDS later to gather the scattered prayers, I was invigorated to not only restore the prayer box better than before, but also to involve as much of the community as possible in this project.
// May 26th, 2010 // 8 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!, Mai News, Pray It Forward
Thank you producer David Fleming, for announcing the video link so all that missed the feature about my PrayerBox can watch. And thank you to everyone who’s been sending forward so much love after seeing the piece. For all the prayers that have been sent, I’ll be taking it to the top of Runyon personally so keep em coming! Also,
for those of you with the great suggestions about a website for the box, I’m actually in the process of creating something even better. My own website is being worked on now, and besides fun fashion news and blog, it will house a specific section where prayers taken up to the box will be posted along with an area for those who can’t make it to the box to post your prayers on my wall. So stay in touch by replying here so that I have your email for updates and keep sending me specific prayers. Until then, see you at the top as we Pray it Forward together.
// May 25th, 2010 // 23 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!, Pray It Forward
Wow oh wow. Before I get into the exciting news for the box, let me explain what it is.
For those of you who have followed my blog, you also know about my beloved Prayer Box I’ve placed at the steepest tip top of Runyon Canyon, 
a beautiful hillside hike here in Hollywood, California. I first had the vision for this box 2 years ago after an overwhelming sense of gratitude for each day that I’ve taken to hike to the top to pray and “reset” for the day ahead. I wondered if every other person who takes the time to hike these two tall mountains felt the same way after reaching the top… knowing that no matter how hard it feels, how badly you don’t feel like doing it, if you believe and put your best foot forward, you WILL.
// March 2nd, 2010 // 9 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!, Mai News
So far- my trip to Vietnam has been surreal. The food, the people…I can’t even stand it. Yesterday I spent time meeting the family of amazing people at the Heartbeat Vietnam headquarters, and learned all the stories of children who had been qualified to receive heart surgeries. Besides meeting the outstanding Robin King Austin who brought her vision to life by founding Heartbeat Vietnam, I met the incredible staff of talented people who put all the efforts forth to save these children. The most memorable part of my visit was seeing this wall of beautiful children, all with a sensational smile and a signature scar of life down the center of their chest. Mimi described to me the stories behind each of these children from various provinces around Vietnam, and how-thanks to each donor- these pictures are able to be rotated often to celebrate each heart surgery completed! With that, Robin blessed me with the greatest invite ever..to go TODAY to actually visit a young survivor who just recently received her heart surgery! I can’t even tell you how jittery my fingers are in typing this blog to head out on my way now to the hospital to see Hoa. Stay tuned for pictures of Hoa and I.. and thank you so much for joining me here to make things like this happen my friends.
// February 18th, 2010 // 17 Comments » // A-freakn-men!!, Fun, Mai News, Pray It Forward
That’s right friends. I’m dying of excitement to finally be taking the first vacation in three stretched years of non-stop working. And well, I even feel bad saying that because I lovemy jobs, so I don’t even feel like I’m overworked, but this is an entirely different trip where I’m going to be working in the way I most love.
So where am I going?? To…(drumroll please, with chopsticks)…
