About once a month I make my pilgrimage to Costco. I usually have a list and try not to veer from it. But if you’ve ever shopped at Costco, you know that it’s tough to get out of there, a) for under $100 and b) without buying something you hadn’t actually planned on. I never [...]
I think I probably could have done a decent job as a princess. After all, I am an excellent smiler and after all those years of watching the Rose Parade, I’ve perfected my princess wave. But I probably wouldn’t have been able to resist the lure of what would undoubtably be an amazing galley. I’d [...]
On a recent trip back East this summer, Emma, my 16 year old got a quick lesson in economics. We ate out three meals a day. Mid-way through the trip, she noticed that some of our “cheap” meals weren’t so cheap. “I don’t understand it,” she said, after we went to an inexpensive sandwich [...]
These are the dog days of summer. But I feel more like a house cat, lazy, lounging in a chaise by the pool too hot to even read. It takes all my energy to drag myself to the edge of the pool and slink down the steps. I am definitely not built for heat. If [...]
So here we go again, doing the Thai thing. It’s tough to do a soup in the summer and not feel too hot, but there’s something about a spicy soup that can actually cool you down. Perhaps that’s why all the countries surrounding the equator prepare food far hotter than those countries closer to the [...]
