Easter weekend is creeping up, and many of us will be heading out to the homes of family and friends to eat, drink, and throw eggs at the houses of our enemies.
What will you be …

Christmas the day has come and gone but the season doesn’t end until the tree comes down. On New Year’s Day we will make resolutions; will eat the last of the leftover camembert and make …

In an effort to keep our blog from looking like the grim, fluorescent-lit photographic menus on the back wall of a Chinese takeout restaurant, we are learning some basic tips for improving our food photos. …

Being happily married is somewhat akin to the condition of a patient in good recovery at an Alpine sanatarium for TB. You become fleshy and rosy, lazy and content. It’s a very Rococo ideal. Which is maybe …

Last night I was whipping up some splendid supper whilst decking the halls and looking good doing it, my husband casually remarked that when it first occurred to him to marry me he had no idea that …

You know that scene in The Dark Crystal when the Skeksi has drunk of the extracted Podling essence and his wrinkled skin becomes taut and his youth appears to have been restored –  but only, …

 
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 …

First off, I want to apologize for the extreme delay in posting this latest entry in the “Gone West” series.  Anyone who has ever tried to move halfway across the country knows that there are …

The Daily Beast has compiled a list of the smartest cities in the USA. We’ve lived together in one (half) of the metropoltian areas ranked in the top ten; I went to college in another; …