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 [...]
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How to cook the perfect baby back baby back baby back ribs
Until my brother in-law joined the family, Molly and I thought baby back ribs were just three words in a ubiquitous Chili's jingle or something you ordered on-line from a magical place called the Montgomery Inn. Enter grill master Brian, who taught us that home grills could produce tender, spicy ribs that melt in your [...]
A Totally 80s Weekend
Every Saturday morning my husband Vince cranked up the radio and yelled with genuine delight to his four sleeping children, "It's a totally 80s weekend!" And they, one by obedient one, stumbled out of the messy bedrooms as Wham! Bon Jovi or Tears for Fears blasted through the house. One day, in an effort to [...]
For it’s Hi! Hi! Hey! on a 90th birthday and the neighbors keep rolling along
On the day before his 90th birthday party, our neighbor Doug popped into our garage. "Can I borrow your leaf blower?" he asked Vinnie, who had been assigned to clean his father's work bench. "Sure," said Vinnie. "But if you want someone to blow out your yard, I'll do it." "I finished my yard," the [...]
Second star on the right
A talented director entertains, a gifted one elevates. This weekend in a high school theatre that has blown us away more often than we can count, we once again transcended a story we had heard all our lives. This time Peter Pan and his faithful, naughty sidekick Tinkerbell led us to Neverland, a place at [...]