Everybody knows that muffins are cupcakes in disguise. I’ll never understand how they managed to trick all of us. Just remove the frosting and suddenly it is acceptable to eat them for breakfast or as a snack? The average muffin recipe is still full of butter and sugar. Those sneaky little things deserve a round […]
I’m trying to be a gardener this year, with a strong emphasis on trying. I think I’m much better skilled at pinning pictures of pretty flowers on Pinterest than I am at growing them, but I’m giving it a go. The first step in my effort is, of course, the least fun step: weeding. After […]
Going out to brunch on the weekends is definitely on our top ten “remember how great life was before COVID” list. Brunch was the best meal of the week. You get to sleep in, it is acceptable for you to attend in borderline pajamas, and you are with your closest friends (only serial killers go […]
A few years ago, I was at an event with a friend, and we were camped out near the dessert table (no surprise there) munching on the array of cookies. She said, “Don’t you wish you could just eat cookies all the time?” It sticks out as such a clear memory because she said it […]
There’s a lovely quote from Walden by Henry David Thoreau that reads, “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” For me, it’s more like, how many new eras in my life have been dated by the eating of a donut: There’s the life changing […]