I have a confession: I don’t always end up making everything on my weekly menu. Sometimes, the day gets unexpectedly wonky, like this Wednesday, when we took L to the doctor for her 18-month well visit and ended up being there for over two hours. By the time we left, traffic was so thick that…
Let’s be clear before I even begin here: a really good granola bar is not going to be low-fat or low-calorie. Period. And these aren’t either of those things – but they are good for you. They’re full of natural, wholesome ingredients, but they are not a dieter’s tool per se. They are dense and…
In the spirit of putting some of my 113 cookbooks into play this year, I’ve decided to choose one cookbook every month from which to try out new recipes in a more focused way. I’ll be sharing some of these, with my own tweaks, here on the blog, and incorporating them into my weekly meal…
During my company’s quarterly sales conference back in November, the fiction publisher said something that struck me hard, and which has stayed with me ever since. Her comment was in relation to a book she was presenting, and I can’t remember its title now, but I won’t soon forget her words: “We learn the most…
They say it takes 30 days to make a habit, and that the first week of those 30 days, the actual work of getting off the ground, is always the hardest. If that’s true, then I’m relieved to say I’ve made it through the hardest part of this whole year. I worked out six days,…
We’ve had some rough weather here, as has most of the country, and E has been asking for Chicken Pot Pie, so that’s coming up (we never get tired of it around here), along with a couple of other favorites. It’s also the first week of E’s last semester of grad school, and the first…