You know those weeks when your parents don’t go to the grocery store so they can “purge” your freezer? And eventually you’re so sick of the defrost setting on the microwave you think that if you hear it beep one more time, you’ll throw it across the room? Yeah, I just had one of those [...]
On Monday, before God, the world and my amused husband, former Packer running back William Henderson picked me up. Literally. Turns out the impulsive and thankfully buff athlete makes a habit of picking up women. After he set me down (and I took a moment to collect myself, kiss the ground and say a quick [...]
On Friday, I packed the car full of soft food goodies and hurtled my best Florence Nightingale self down I-94 to nurse my poor daughter Katherine back to health after the extraction of her wisdom teeth. With dramatic visions of bloody gauze and bruised cheeks in my head and a cell phone with spotty GPS in [...]
Though we toasted it simply, with a quick meal at our neighborhood Chinese restaurant, yesterday marked a significant milestone for Molly and me, the last day of her first year of high school. She gave her freshman year a nine out of ten, which is high praise from someone who began the year getting cut [...]
Nothing says weekend like a plate of warm pancakes flipped by the special occasion cook in your house. Our resident pancake maker has griddled all manner of cake including blueberry, applesauce, chocolate chip, banana, raspberry and every combination of the aforementioned. He flips pancakes in the shape of footballs, cartoon characters, names and, on one memorable occasion, [...]