Working from home has its merits (working without pants) and its uglier aspects (when invited to leave said home for a pants-mandatory function, you might be horrified to discover that said pants are not quite as …

I had an insanely productive morning. I walked on the beach, practiced Nia for an hour, read People of the Book for my book club and made these incredible muffins. Baking from scratch is totally blowing my …

My husband occasionally accuses me of eating garbage food: a bowl of yuck (or yum?) cobbled together from leftovers and soon-to-be-rotting vegetables. I think this is a grand way to eat and not (heaven forbid, …

The Best Sandwich I Ever Had
by Malcolm
The best sandwich I ever had was not one of the overstuffed monstrosities from Katz’s Deli in New York. It wasn’t even the Chicken Parm Hero from Hero Boy …

Every good American knows, deep in the recesses of our fatty happy hearts, that fast food is only really appropriate if you are on the open road. Though I’m not sure the half hour drive …

I don’t have a baby. And when I do I don’t plan to let it shit on the floor. But that’s just me. Some people (not those as open-minded and non judgmental as I) find …

I love to play hostess, even where we only have two friends to invite. Our neighbors from Casa Roosevelt were here Monday night for pizza and Anarchy. It had been a while since we last had guests …

 
So much in life seems to happen from momentum. From where we live to what we drive is based on myriad factors and variables and choices we made long before the present. The pressure is immense …

When I was a pissy 9th grader and my evil parents forced me, against my will, to abandon my entire life and everything I knew to take a one week cruise in the Carribean, and I …

 
We ate a lot of canned vegetables growing up. My mom was a typical Baby Boomer from a first generation suburban family. The convenience and novelty of Campbell’s and Durkee was not lost on my …