One of my favorite times of the year is Oscar Night. A girlfriend is kind enough to host every year, cooking up fancy nibbles to eat with sparkling wine. We dress in comfy clothes, maybe adding a sparkly bracelet or necklace to feel movie-star-esque. I bring my own...
I live in a mixed generation neighborhood. If you want to see babies in a stroller, they live here. If you want to pretend little boys are not hiding in your bushes for hide-and-seek, they live here. If you want a teenage babysitter or a teenage driver, gulp, they...
Movie season to me is from Christmas to the end of February. The announcements for nominees for The Golden Globes and The Oscars motivate me and my friends to go to the theater about once a week to cover all the Best Picture films. And if any are out while I...
When the Health-Crazed Organic-Man Hubby is away, the rest of us eat pizza, hamburgers, spaghetti and enchiladas. Pretty much anything with starch in the main course is a treat. I cook, except hamburgers. I can’t top my favorite organic burger from Roam, about...
I tell ya, sometimes I’m going along and I’m stopped in my tracks. A small pet peeve rears its head. Something like a cereal-crusted bowl next to the sink instead of soaking in the sink or rinsed out and placed in the dishwasher and it bugs me. Or, it...
For years, bouquets of red roses with baby’s breath seemed trite to me for Valentine’s Day and an obscene amount of money just because it’s a holiday. I couldn’t lay that kind of tacky and expensive pressure on my sweetie pie. Anything BUT...
