I’m not one to brag about my skills in the kitchen. Quite the contrary, as a matter of fact. But I have an Apple Crisp recipe that’s so delicious, it would be wrong to keep it to myself. I have been making this dessert for years now (I found the recipe on Epicurious), but usually only twice a year: Thanksgiving [...]

I was pretty sure I was making the right decision when I left New York City to move back home. Even though, in the city, I had some pretty fancy services. My food was usually made for and delivered to me… My apartment had a dishwasher… And my laundry was done for me…. But, of course, you never know what [...]

Ever since I made the decision to try to spread my cooking wings, I have been making a noble satisfactory valid effort to step out of my comfort zone in the kitchen. (Remember, my “comfort zone” was right about at you-just-can’t-get-any-worse-than-this, so there really wasn’t anywhere to go but up.) The turkey/rice wrap and omelette I made were (dare I [...]

I was in no mood to cook dinner last night. I was still tired from Sunday (waking up at 4:30 AM in Rhode Island, driving to New Hampshire, running a 16 mile race, and then driving to NYC all in one day will do that to you). Then, the shuttle back to Manhattan from Queens (where I work on Mondays) [...]

My apartment is tiny. Really tiny. How many steps do you think it takes for me to get from the couch in my living room to the bed in my bedroom? It’s a trick question: the “living room” and the “bedroom” are the same room. (And the answer is: about a half a step.) If I stood in the middle [...]

Last night my mom, dad, Audrey and I went out to dinner to celebrate Audrey’s 31st birthday. Yes, her birthday was a week earlier, on May 23, but it fell on Memorial Day weekend, and it was a pretty jam-packed weekend at that, so the birthday dinner was pushed to May 30. It’s funny that Audrey wrote a post just [...]

My Friday night impromptu hair and make-up session by my fabulous friend Leah before going out on the town After getting pampered by Leah, having the best time with her and Yadira – two ladies who make me laugh and just make it fun to be silly Taking Ryder and Seth to the dog park Saturday morning and watching them [...]

I was running on the treadmill at the gym today (I hate the treadmill, but it was just too icy to run outside) and a song came on my iPod that I hadn’t heard in awhile – When You Were Young by The Killers. A little back story here. Usually I have my Playlists all set up for my outside [...]

See the title of this post? That’s, like, the daily mantra in our house. As soon as we walk through the door, usually one of us will scope the downstairs rooms to see if anything’s amiss. More often than not, it usually ends up with one of going, “Oh, God…” And the other one of us just knows. “What did [...]

By the time it hits mid-July, I can sometimes get into that mid-summer funk. You know what I mean? I start to realize that in just over a month, summer will be over, and it’ll be back to shorter days, bulkier wardrobes – and no tan. (The horror!) But then I remember that it isn’t even until mid-July that something [...]