I have a weakness for watching games from humble bleachers. While the NFL strikes me as bloated and boring, I have a real soft spot for high school and college athletics. It’s that heady combination …

I was visiting friends in New York two weeks ago and hoping to take a Nia class with my BFF. We knew we wanted to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art and walk through Central …

I am not really a dessert girl but this sounds so very right right now. I want to bake these cookies, close the curtains, dim the lights and set up an ice cold bottle of …

After two years of marriage I still am occasionally surprised that I’m somebody’s Mrs. I find being a wife rather delightful and married life suits me very well but there are a few habits of …

I haven’t always been this charming at parties. Once upon a time I was an unhappy hostess, throwing tantrums and uninviting guests mid-gathering for such heinous transgressions as forgetting the rules of Parcheesi or creating …

I had my first drink in a discotheque on board a cruise ship somewhere south of St Thomas in 1993. It was a tall Tom Collins. I was 14. There have been many drinks since …

It’s a hot Thursday afternoon…somewhere I’m sure and nothing says summer like white sangria. It lifts you up lightly and carries you along on its brandy soaked back. It’s basically a boozy Falcor, and who …

We’ve had melted cheese for dinner four out of five nights since Friday. We know it’s wrong. But you see, we live 45 minutes from a good market and have been busy, lazy and a …

I was hungover and walking on the beach a little before noon when I remembered my most recent solemn vow. Late last night looking at my face in the bathroom mirror and mourning a younger, …

Last night’s dinner of game hen was a great success. They were tender and juicy and crisp of skin. I was careful to eat only a little of mine, so as to have enough to …