These aren’t recipes…they’re tongasmic culinary experiences!
Let's start by assigning blame: Al Gore. Since he invented the internet, it's absolutely his fault for making us a fatter nation. Not only can we find fabulous recipes in two clicks of a mouse, beautiful pictures and step-by-step...
Best Pound Cake in the World
While I bet Paula Deen, Martha Stewart and even The Pioneer Woman have delicious recipes for pound cake, I’d wager not one of them is even a tinch better than my mother-in-law’s scrumptious recipe. It’s almost foolproof and after a single slice,...
Sacredness of Women / Pity of Men
Nine months I get to know her before I ever see her face, that perfect round face topped in downy black with serious eyes and delicate features, and though my sister warned me it might not happen, it was love at first sight. Love before first sight. I...
Music that has been somewhere…
This got me at the 2:20 mark…. Shaun Groves – Third World Symphony (Ethiopia Story) from Shaun Groves on Vimeo. Beautiful and affecting is the inspiration for Shaun Groves' new album, Third World Symphony. No wonder the end result is equally...
[Twisted] Veggie Tales
"What happens when you play Barry White to your carrots….." Reason #128 while Jill aka The Diaper Diaries is one of my favorite bloggers on the planet–this was her Facebook status this morning. And in consideration of my bi-polar...
Metamorphosis ~ a love note
She accomplished something I haven't seen many accomplish: She changed because she wanted to. It wasn't easy, either. You see, it's one thing to see yourself as you are, desire to change something about yourself, and then...
Black and white and red all over
Oh, my. I loved the book The Help, not because it was the best-written novel I've ever read, but because I can identify with the story in part, because this is the era in which I grew up. I thought (romanticized??) that Abileen's and Minny's...
Demystifying the College Search
~ Parenting Teens Column at Simple Mom ~
My first-born will begin her college freshman year later this month. With over 4,500 colleges and universities in our country, deciding where to attend followed a rigorous, months’ long odyssey that required investigation, perseverance, and sifting through a...
We will never pass this way again…
I heard it before I heard it, '70s Seals & Crofts, one of my favorites of theirs. It was only when I stepped out of the shower to towel off that I heard myself humming along to the radio. Life, so they say, is but a game and we let it slip...