I came home from yoga class just now to discover that my dog had eaten my old photo albums.

In celebration of a successful first six months of freelancing, I mailed in my enormous, cringe-inducing tax payments (yes, payments, plural: one for New York State, one for Arizona, one quarterly estimated payment, and one big fat one for the feds for last year) and then proceeded to spend a whole lot of money on [...]

Yesterday was the three-year anniversary of my first date with Dan. We celebrated by drinking a lot of wine and baking chewy chocolate chunk and walnut cookies. The chocolate chunks were leftover from the Christmas truffle-making experience, not likely to be repeated soon.

When the cookies were ready, we brewed up some espresso and settled in [...]

Most of the time I spend on the web is divided between checking out the crafty persuits of various talented and fashionable women, and ogling the delicious foods that friends, neighbors, former co-workers, and total strangers are cooking up in their kitchens. Lately I’ve been barely able to keep from drooling over Mel’s scrumptious-looking Miami [...]