I think of deli meat - braunschweiger - each time I read her name.

I am not sure who Jerry Ferrara is, but I like his thinking here.

There was a baby at our church's fall festival Sunday dressed as Santa. She was sooo cute.

Do you have a color printer (or markers) and a hot glue gun and access to a fabric store? Make a tea bag. Buy a a couple yards of netting. Seal three edges with hot glue gun to make a pouch. Fill with dried leaves and twigs. Seal the top. Tea Bag. Print out label or color label that you pin to hair on a…

Wasn't this the whole plan of that First magazine? I remember my mom buying that one a few times.

When they realize that we are not horrible beast creatures that need to be kept from the regular people, ie never.

Trader Joe's is my go-to spot for cheap wine. Since they opened here and made buying wine easier (no wine in the store here), my consumption has gone WAY up.

My grown-ass adult husband opened up the bag of Butterfingers on Monday. Why not just steal from the children? They don't notice and don't like chocolate, anyway. I have weird kids. And we had early trick or treating at church on Sunday.

Ranch dressing.

Based a story that ran on MPR/NPR a week or so ago, there was no lead contractor on the project. No overarching project management - just a lot of companies/contractors doing their bit and signing off. No one group was responsible for end to end testing of the product or handling integration of the bits. I also…

My childhood was similar - my mom cooked very nice Brady Bunch-esque meals. We rarely ate out and fast food was a treat - this was also the 70's and 80's so things were a little different. I loved watching my mother cook and reading her cookbooks - it was one of the few areas where we connected. She didn't…

Bring in kids who touch stuff. You get helped really damn fast. I worked retail in store with similar demographics to WS. You never ignore anyone. It's just stupid and bad business. My biggest sales were to people who didn't look like they had money. Probably why they did have money.

I absolutely love the idea of striving to have that level of compassionate action even if you don' t have the resources of a JK Rowling. Thank you for sharing that - I needed that kind of hope today.

Cauliflower, potato, and pea curry with basmati rice. And now I may make an apple crisp type thing because I realized how many apples I have and my daughter didn't eat most of a big Granny Smith that was her snack. Plus, I don't have work tomorrow so I can stay up and hate watch the Sox game.

Yes, there's hope. So far the game isn't too bad.

Scarpetta from Patricia Cornwell's mystery novels. It's an example of a character becoming increasingly "awesome" and infallible over the course of a series. Then the author started trying to solve the Jack the Ripper case. And books became unreadable.

It really is. I was shocked at how delicious they are. The HoneyCrisps have been great this fall. Combining the two in a pie is amazing.

They did - Signature. It absolutely screams New England. I really like some of their wool jackets - especially the duffle styles.

Have you looked at LL Bean? They've been upping the style factor lately and have an unconditional lifetime guarantee. Good luck!

I think of these poor misguided souls when I'm listening to a sermon about acceptance of all people, loving each other no matter what, or helping those who need it. When our awesome lady pastor reminds everyone of what Jesus really stood for right before the elections. I'm not sure about God and Jesus and heaven and…