Cheesy Pennies

I spent the past few days with my son , doing the Parents' Weekend thing at his school. Officially, there were campus tours, a football...

Things I am doing wrong*, according to my daughter: Hashtags Instagram Using Android instead of an iPhone Presuming to check in and see...

When you are a kid, the whole concept of taking turns and sharing is pretty challenging to grasp. Image from GoComics.com ...

Thursday marked the start of the Lunar New Year, and like many other people sitting in the bathroom that morning, I heard the lighthearted s...

-- From  UrbanDictionary . I'm not normally a "for days" kind of person, especially when it comes to food*.  But once I...

That quote is attributed to Dr. Louis Pasteur, circa 1854, where he supposedly said something along the lines of, " When it comes to o...

When the sky looks like this: The ground looks like this: And you feel like this: Give yourself a break.  Stop str...

Here's the thing about blogging, at least the way I do it.  I cook something, and then I write about it after we eat it*.   Days, weeks,...

Before: After: Let's just say that having coffee worked out way better for our steak than it did for Will Farrell*.

Per my two minutes of online research, this is the origin of the phrase "Pull One's Leg": "When you pull a person's...

WE INTERRUPT OUR NORMALLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING TO BRING YOU THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. Anchor:  There has been a startling development ...

The carrot crop came in, big time, this weekend. The guinea pigs were beside themselves. Everyone else was kind of frightened by the w...

I'm an Easter egg underachiever. Instead of decoupage, decals, natural hues from bark or moss or tea, pastel glitter dips, add-on ...

There was definitely a randy Irish slave owner somewhere in my family tree*, and my husband's pale-faced lineage has many an O'Brien...

When I took my pro chef class , I learned the following: Braising is a cooking technique, seen often in French cuisine, combining moist an...