If one more cold or flu virus hits our household before the end of 2009, we might officially place ourselves under quarantine, or opt to live in one of those plastic bubbles to avoid picking up any more pesky illnesses that sap our energy and reduce...

A very happy, albeit jet-lagged Thanksgiving to you all.  Major apologies for not getting this up earlier, but it represents my first attempt at vlogging and the learning curve ended up being a little steeper than I anticipated. I just returned from...

The Spousal Unit and I are in Vegas for a long Thanksgiving weekend, because nothing says "Turkey Day" like poker, fine dining, and spa treatments, possibly with a bit of early Christmas shopping thrown in. So Jen-Luc Piquant is left to her own devices...

Over at Swans on Tea, Tom expounded recently on how cooking isn't "really" science, recalling a family holiday gathering where his grade school niece wanted to bake something for her school science project. For Tom, this bit of information "elicited a...

Halloween may be over, but Jen-Luc Piquant is all aflutter about the forthcoming release on November 20 of New Moon, the film adaption of the second book in Stephanie Meyer's bestselling Twilight trilogy. (She is equally aflutter over Lady Gaga's...