I took a slower than I intended jog yesterday and thought about how much we have to celebrate in this great country of ours. The air felt perfectly warm and the luxurious post-surprise-homemade-banana-pancakes-with-fresh-strawberries timing of my run made me grateful for the season that produced the berries, the holiday that allowed me to savor the [...]
This weekend, we ate smiley faced pancakes with fresh blueberries, raspberries and chocolate chips. We played pickup baseball, Hedbanz and a loose-ruled version of Family Feud. We took long, slow walks down old country roads. We watched a mother robin feed her baby birds. We sat around a crackling camp fire and listened to frogs [...]
Our favorite leprechaun greeted me with a pot of gold yesterday when I dropped by her house for a wee bit o' blarney. "Have some chocolate," she said. "I buy it from the Boy Scouts." Then she held up a basket full of giant candy bars, wrapped in gold. Connie the Cookie Lady celebrates every [...]
We are T-minus 24 hours from the big day and, we’re not going to lie, we’re struggling here at Christmas central. Complete anarchy erupted in a baker’s box, and now we have a half dozen gingerbread men in a less than dignified state of undress, with clumps of parchment paper stuck to their limbs and [...]
I’m pretty sure I met the real Santa Claus last night and he did not disappoint. As with most magical encounters, it happened randomly. I rounded a corner on an ordinary cul de sac and slammed so hard into the spirit of Christmas that my breath stopped for a second or two and my eyes [...]
