Cheesy Pennies

We have some very dear friends who are leaving tomorrow for an odyssey around the world. They are abandoning their settled life here i...

My grandparents lived in a purple house. It was in a less-than-great neighborhood of plain row houses in the flats of San Francisco, and I ...

When she got in the car, we asked my daughter how her day was. Her:  I am NEVER going back to regular balsamic vinegar.   EVER ! We ar...

The nice thing about magazines? They're portable. As in, you can take them on planes when you fly to Seattle to eat , so you can r...

According to Wikipedia : A " perfect storm " is an expression that describes an event where a rare combination of circumst...

Per Merriam-Webster : Definition of  COUNTERINTUITIVE :  contrary to what one would intuitively expect —  coun·ter·in·tu·i·tive·ly...

NOTE:  I discovered a draft of this post lying around in Blogger purgatory this weekend, and decided to unleash it, just in time for the sum...