I remember the first gyro I ever ate, and the best gyro I ever ate. The earliest “gyros” I remember (in quotes because they were a not-completely-authentic copy of the real thing) were tasty, but a far cry from the best gyro I ever ate. When I was young and my mom and I went…
I know, chicken soup is something you associate with being sick, right? It conjures up visions of red-and-white Campbell’s soup cans and your mom bringing you glass after glass of ginger ale and afternoons camped out on the couch watching reruns of Law & Order. Okay, so maybe that’s what it does for me, not you….
Last time I told you I have this nice, longish list of goals I want to accomplish by (roughly) December 31, 2013. And most of those goals require a daily investment of my time. My full-time-work-at-home, new-mom time. Did you laugh at me? Snort in derision, maybe? It’s okay if you did. I forgive you….
I will be eternally grateful to Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen for insisting that you can have stellar homemade pizza with very little effort. We haven’t found a local pizza place we really like here in Virginia, and I was so tired of greasy, mediocre carryout pizza that I wanted more than anything to believe…
There are two things I know to be fundamentally true of God and want to talk about today. One, he continually calls us to know him more deeply through his word (the Bible). Two, he wants us to be good stewards of all he has given us, including our bodies, our relationships, our talents and…
I love oatmeal, and I try to eat it for breakfast often these days because I’m nursing and it improves my milk production. Some medical authorities claim that this just isn’t possible, but there’s testimony upon testimony out there from nursing moms who say otherwise, and I agree with them. That said, oatmeal every day…