This spring I saw a brochure for a kitchen store that does cooking classes. They listed a summer cooking camp for teens that ran for a week....

Recently I saw an online discussion about the question, "If you had to get rid of all but 10 cookbooks, which would you keep?" ...

Becoming a parent transforms the way you look at the world. As you clutch your newborn baby to your chest, the world becomes, in the blink...

For the most part I am a fairly rational person. I can look at situations and think through the possible outcomes, arriving at conclusions s...

I am a horrible packrat and I know it. I blame it on the Great Depression. Wait, you think I lived through that? No, even though a big b...

Long ago, when I was pretty new at parenting, I bought my son a can of Chef Boyardee ravioli as a treat. It wasn't something I would no...

Thank you so much to all of you who took the time to comment on my last post. It was very encouraging! I haven't abandoned the blog; I...

Yesterday I was at Costco and I ran into a friend of my daughter's. She commented that I hadn't been writing much lately. Um, yeah.....