I love oatmeal in any form, and for Fitness Monday, I’m giving you a recipe for one of the ways I love it best: fresh müesli. Real müesli doesn’t come in a box, and it doesn’t involve cereal flakes, although you can find it that way in the grocery store – and even in shops…
This week has hinted at spring. Yes, hinted, like a whisper you hear over your shoulder. “I’m coming,” it says. “I’m on my way.” Even though we had snow on Tuesday, it was all gone by Wednesday night. Today, it was 60 degrees and the kind of windy that will send you running across a…
When I was a little girl, my mom used to buy those little frozen one-serving pot pies that came in a foil pie pan. You bake them on a cookie sheet in the oven, and when you cut into them with a fork, green peas and perfect little cubes of chicken, potato, and carrot spill…
This past weekend, a sweet friend commented admiringly on the way I “have it down,” as she put it, meaning the way I apparently have time management figured out. She was talking specifically about how I find (make) time to write in the midst of everything else that’s on my plate. I wanted to shake…
I love Lebanese food. Back when I lived in Royal Oak, Michigan and attended Genesis: the Church when it was in its infancy, I used to go with friends after the Sunday night service to a Lebanese restaurant downtown for kibbeh and fattoush. Those times are among my favorite memories; I’d survived the toughest season of…
It’s almost spring. I can smell it in the air (also, my allergies are beginning to surface, which is a sure sign winter is almost over). It was in the 60s here on Saturday, although the grey sky and the wind made that hard to believe. The “Real Feel” was something like 56 degrees. Still….