It’s a new year and a new decade* (*okay, not really, but it FEELS like a new decade, doesn’t it?) and I realized I never posted the December meal plan. I’m so sorry, and also, totally fine with this snafu.
Oh, sure, I’m super organized. I meal plan a month at a time, and since I carry my spiral notebook everywhere I go (and spend lots of time waiting around for kids to finish up activities), I generally have a
So here’s a new term: “Bomb Cyclone.” It’s a thing, and it’s supposed to impact something like 41 million Americans starting tomorrow….including we New Englanders. Currently, the weather forecasters are estimating that our city here in RI will get as
Well, here we are. It’s the end of 2017 and I know I’m not alone in saying: BYE, FELICIA. It’s been…real. As in, real bad. In some ways, I guess I owe 2017 something. It was, after all, the year
Thanksgiving is four days away and I just spent fifteen minutes hacking my turkey in half. I promise I have not gone completely mad. (OK, maybe I can’t confidently promise that, but if I have, the turkey has nothing to
Recently, I had a complete privileged-white-lady moment when my beloved local Whole Foods delivery team stopped their grocery delivery service. (I KNOW, RIGHT? ADULTING IS HAAAARRRRD.) Yes, I know it’s whiny and self-indulgent to be brokenhearted about not getting your
As many of my faithful readers know, in my “real life” I work as a freelance writer and consultant to non-profit organizations. Most of my work is done for the amazing non-profit The Family Dinner Project, which is something like
Charleston. I said to my husband last night, or maybe it was the night before: “I’m feeling really sad about Charleston.” J.: “I know. Me, too.” Me: “I mean, especially because we went there. We’ve been there. We loved it.
This post is part excitement, part thanks, and part mea culpa. See, the great folks at Tuttorosso Tomatoes reached out to me a while back and asked if they could send me a blogger kit. No strings attached, no post
Last week, I wrote about the new challenge we’re facing in our household with a schedule that now doesn’t allow us all to sit down together each night for dinner. I shared my thoughts on how to manage that kind