As we all know, we are full on into the month of entertaining, of gathering our families around the table for warm meals so that we can escape the ever chillier days. For those of us who are not truly crazy and did not start planning Thanksgiving meals in October (okay, I might be slightly…
I am a person who likes to be settled. I like to have a schedule and to be able to write everything I have to do on my calendar and to have the same routine every day. And this goes back an embarrassingly long time, because as I admitted to Gerrit’s family the other day as we…
Probably one of my earliest memories of my life is actually a memory of Halloween. Every year we went trick-or-treating with our family friends, meeting at our house or their house to get into our costumes, and then afterwards we would come back and sort out our candy and offer trades (which really, we all…
I don’t know what it’s like where you’re from, but for me in high school there were always people who couldn’t wait to leave. There was constant chatter about wanting to get out of Huntsville because there was “nothing to do here” and it was a “small town” (which, to people who say it’s a…
As I have already admitted, I am not generally a sauce person. But what I haven’t really told you is that it doesn’t stop with pizza sauce. Oh, no no. I pretty much always can do without sauce of any kind. Spaghetti sauce? No thank you, I’ll just have butter and cheese. I’d usually rather…