I don’t know about you but when I see a Buffalo Chicken Salad on a menu I want it.  Unfortunately, most of the time, the chicken is fried, the salad has a mound of shredded cheese, and it’s doused in a high fat dressing. Consequently, I rarely order it when I’m out. I wanted something I...

This shouldn’t be a trick question. But sadly, it is. As your children are well aware, there are many many many varieties of Cheerios (Honey Nut, Chocolate, Apple Cinnamon, Peanut Butter, and so on) and when we’re all racing through the store in our eight minutes of allotted time to pick up...

How did your morning unfold today? Did it go the way you planned? If not…why not? Perhaps because we often do mornings on autopilot, using rituals and patterns we established when our lives looked quite different than they might today.  We forget that when our lives change, our rituals need to change...

School’s out for summer! And now I’m ready to glide into the easy, breezy days of summer entertaining. I have visions of myself  hosting dinner al fresco for eight or ten friends and serving lovely little nibbles. And then I remember that while I used to be a frequent hostess of those kids of...

My early days of bike riding were not particularly auspicious. My parents love to tell the stories of how I was the last kid on the block to master a two-wheeler. I wasn’t particularly coordinated and I think I was terrified of falling! I eventually figured it out and spent many a childhood day...