This year, Thanksgiving at our house is going to look a little different. My daughter’s coming home and it’ll be just the three of us—but after five decades of helping my grandma then my mom, then hosting it myself, roasting, basting, and pretending I enjoy peeling potatoes, I’ve decided to embrace a radical midlife concept: […]
Streamlining Thanksgiving and remembering the Cornish hen that got away! Read More »
Empty Nest Halloweens just hit differently This Halloween feels a little different. For the first time in decades, I’m in a totally new state, city & neighborhood — and I don’t know any of the kids knocking on my door. The people in my new neighborhood used to go all out and the realtor who
The ghosts at my door aren’t the ones in costumes Read More »
If you grew up in Michigan back in the day, you know exactly where temptation lived — right there in the middle of the grocery store, between the bananas and the green beans: it was the Brach’s Pick-a-Mix candy kiosk. I swear it had a bright ray of light hovering over it and I heard
Bless Me Father, For I Have Stolen (A Brach’s Caramel) Read More »