February is always a difficult month. The excitement of Christmas is long gone and the weather settles into seemingly endless winter mode. T...

I've often thought that a required class for high schoolers should be How To Be Poor. Not How to Get Poor - that's as simple as sayi...

Baking with the Bread Baking Babes is a virtual globe-trotting tour. This month, our kitchen hostess, Karen of Bake My Day , took us to Spai...

Today my first bit of writing for Simple Bites is up. I wrote about how I menu plan and gave ideas to help you do the same. Go check it out...

I'm on a quest again. A friend asked me to make a bride & groom's cake for her wedding (with the very clear understanding that I...

When I was a little girl I loved Valentine's Day. In elementary school we were assigned the project of making a valentine holder, either...

We've had a really weird winter, weatherwise, thus far. Last year we saw more snow than we had in decades and this year, nothing. Not a ...

I'm really not good at keeping secrets. I say, in all earnestness, "Go ahead and tell me. I won't tell anyone." But if it...