There are some things you don’t talk about on the Internet. Your marital problems, for example. A falling out with a friend. A date with your th...
It took me a long time to feel comfortable in the kitchen. I began to enjoy cooking sometime in college, but back then, I owned exactly two cookbo...
Last year, Matt and I took a few days off from work to go to New York and New Jersey for a family friend's wedding. Even though the wedding was in...
Elijah’s Deli welcomed me with open Jewish grandma arms the first time my parents dropped me off in San Diego to start college as a freshman. An...
March is lot like a long, flat stretch of road somewhere. It’s far enough away from where you’ve left (winter) and not quite to where you’re h...
Phew. I'm back from my second trip to New York City in less than three weeks, and needless to say, I am ready for a long nap. It's nice to feel gr...
We’ve been reading this children’s book a lot lately. It’s written and illustrated by Carson Ellis, the wife of The Decemberists' Colin Melo...
One thing I’ve quickly realized as a home owner is that nothing is ever ‘done.’ Hard as I struggle to have the picture be ‘complete’ the...
There was a period of time I remember when a lot of bloggers started writing about slowing down. They argued that we’d become consumed with produc...
"I owe you a phone call” is what my friends and I say to each other whenever we find ourselves exchanging a flurry of emails and text messages w...
There is a well-known state of weather. And it's not Spring, Fall, Winter or Summer. I call it 'Soup Weather' and it can strike at any time, be it...