There is a campaign, perhaps you’ve heard of it, encouraging us to go meatless on Mondays and it’s called, of course, Meatless Monday. Meatless Monday is a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns, in association with the Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health. Their goal is to help reduce … Read More
It’s Friday, one day from being up to our shoulder pads in football both on the sidelines of my son’s rec league and on the sofa yelling bad and good things as Defensive Coach ofremote controlfor a Big Ten alma mater. Further, the teenager will be sequestered with a laptop, … Read More
If you’ve never made your own pumpkin from scratch anything before and always relied on canned purees to fill your pies and nourish your muffins, then perhaps you too didn’t realize that jack o lantern pumpkins were not to be cooked with. Motivated to make something good out of our … Read More
Heirloom tomatoes, on prominent display at our local supermarkets or farmer’s markets, stand out with their awkward shapes and unusual colors looking more like produce defects rather than treasures that generations have coveted and passed down through the years. I’ve often wondered if the name ‘heirloom’ was just another salient … Read More
Wrapping up the behemoth project that was our photo book from African Family Vacation made me nostalgic for Kenya. It also made me slightly hostile toward my dueling shutter bugs, Kendall and Dan, for capturing one billion or so images that hijacked my laptop and from which we (I) culled … Read More