It has been a long darn week. Beloved has been working long hours out of town.  I’ve been working long hours in town.  I DID get the car serviced this week (if you can call $190 for basically rotating the tires, an oil change and a lube job anything...

My two grown children are coming here for Thanksgiving, and I am THRILLED.  I’m proud to say that I’m close to all of my kids, and that holidays spent together are not an obligation but a celebration made even more special by the fact that we don’t...

This subject of this week’s Spin Cycle – heroes and bravery – has been unusually difficult for me to tackle, not because I don’t know anyone who is heroic or brave, but because I know so many who are. Let’s face it – it’s easy (or easier) to be heroic...

Actually, this post has nothing to do with any of those things (well, except the wine); I just thought it sounded like a cool title. ~~~~~~ I guess I could have called it “Leftovers, Dog Poop and Menopause” – far more realistic, but not quite as...

Good gawd, we were so busy last week that I never got around to posting a recipe.  And it’s not going to get better any time soon; after more than a week with Jolly and Little Guy, Beloved left yesterday afternoon to drive to Kalamazoo, Michigan for a...