Valentine’s Day Cake Pops

February 15, 2012.Reading time 5 minutes.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always wondered how the heck you make those cute tiny cake pops. It was a mystery to me until I found the perfect and easy recipe. I decided my first attempt at this would be the night before Valentine’s Day for my coworkers and my husbands as well. […]

Quotation Marks

January 30, 2012.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…to find the air and the water exhilaration…to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life. – John Burroughs

Getting to Know You: 15 Questions

January 18, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

1. What do you think you can do but can’t? Write! ha! A never ending battle, there… 2. What’s a difficult word for you to pronounce? “Rural”. I’ve just NEVER been able to get that one right…I stutter so bad with the “ru” part at first just because I’m still trying to figure out how the heck […]

Quotation Marks

January 10, 2012.Reading time less than 1 minute.

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot

New Year, New Life

January 4, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

2012 is already off to a good start, I must say. It started with the last day in December by waking up early to sign the lease for our apartment, seeing our new home for the first time, and packing a fourteen foot U-Haul. Life was getting sunnier by the minute. It helped to also have friends […]

Quotation Marks

December 29, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

Currently Stuck In My Head | Lights

December 9, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Love the beat of this!

Movin’ On Up!

December 6, 2011.Reading time 3 minutes.

It baffles me the state of mind I was in this time last year amid all of the Christmas fun…I was planning my wedding – make that SAVING my wedding – and going on the fritz. Zazzle.com sent me an email recently, which is where I got our wedding postage, and it reminded me of […]

Lady Lazarus, By Sylvia Plath

November 22, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

For a brief period of time I was interested in poetry. And correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s almost a dying art. My guess is that words in music have become our modern poetry. Back in my Junior or Senior year of high school, I became attracted to Sylvia Plath. It probably wasn’t her […]