Here we go!!! I came across this post from Lent three years ago, and laughed out loud.. I totally forgot about this conversation! I hate when Lent (and therefore Easter) start this early. Just when I’m starting to slack off on my new year’s resolutions, it’s time to take up new ones, but this time guilt is attached to them. 8-year-old charge (that’s nanny lingo for “kid I…
It’s almost Mardi Gras!!! One of the aspects I both love and hate about where I went to college is the fact that people came from (and went) ALL over the country, and in some cases, the world. We had a large group from Louisiana, which is where I get my slight obsession for all things Mardi Gras from. So, I am going to Mardi Gras dinner at some friends’…
I genuinely, sincerely, whole-heartedly don’t know what I would do if I ever got a diagnosis for celiac disease. No, I take that back. I know what I would do. I would starve. My three anti-drugs are: drinking beer, eating carbs and baking carb-loaded things… Sometimes all at once. I briefly considered religious life when someone told me that there is an order of nuns in Europe that…
Like any good basic white girl, I do enjoy any reference to pop culture. Y’all. I survived. It was rough, but I made it with plenty of fat stored up for the rest of winter and jello arms from shoveling. So, here’s what happened on Wednesday night: It was a hot mess dot com. DC folks canNOT handle even a little sprinkle of snow. I lucked out. Even though I…
This is one of my faves. Enjoy! Ingredients: – 2 frozen pie crusts without sugar – 6 eggs – 2 cans evaporated milk – 1/2 tsp salt – 2 cups grated Swiss cheese – 2 cups cooked spinach, drained – 3 tsbp minced onion Preheat the oven to 425*F. Sprinkle cheese at the bottom of the pie shells. Combine eggs, milk and salt in a bowl and mix throughly.…
There comes a point in every woman’s life where she realizes that she has not yet fully lived. I, of course, am not speaking about some dramatic spiritual encounter.. Because I’m never this deep when I talk about spirituality. That’s probably not a good thing… I’m talking about one of the best ways to consume highly caloric food items in the Metro DC area. My life is now more…
If we’ve ever had a voice-on-voice conversation, odds are, you’ve heard me mention at least one of the following: 1) The OverDrive App 2) The book, ‘Generation Me’ by Jeanne Twenge. (life-changer) 3) My dog, Cannoli. 4) Some sort of education philosophy (and by complete hate for the Montessori cult) 5) The latest thing I learned about alternative medicine including, but not limited to: milk thistle, biotin, ginger tea, yoga,…
This marks the one-year mark since Paul Coakley left this world for the next.. I never knew him directly; I’m sure we interacted a time or two because of all the mutual friends we had, but were never friends. However, I think I speak for many of my fellow alumni when I say that he touched my life in a profound way. Looking back on what I wrote a year…
I can’t believe another year is in the books… A year ago I said the same thing, and now it’s almost 2016… Travel back a year with me. I can’t believe how much has changed!! Happy New Year, blog babes! I spent the nice long break both at home in Ohio and then in Marco Island, Florida to ring in 2015. It was beautiful and relaxing, and now I’m finally…
Sigh, these were the days, when I could just get bored and hop over to Salzburg for an afternoon or Prague for a quick overnight… It’s funny reading back over these, because some of the most salient things I remember, I did not convey here at all… Like, for example, how when we rented the van to go to Prague, we did not have a clue how to get there.…