When I was in my early 20's (long time ago) and newly married. For our 1st year anniversary, my then husband made reservations at Calhoun’s, a fancy steak place in Knoxville, Tn. I was working in quality control at a factory at that time, and was literally wearing a flannel shirt and ripped jeans (it was the fashion…

I’m sorry and I hope you are okay but duck fat mayo is extremely good.

Oh Apologies.. 129, I thought the anova was a bit more but guess I was wrong.  

Gets me every time. I didn’t realize until I was a parent how much I loved Fred Rogers. What an incredible loss and yet an indelible legacy.

Not when one of them is Mother Theresa.

I’ve used Scrivener for years, to plan my mystery novels, and I’m sure I’m still just scraping the surface of what’s available to me. For day to day writing, I use FocusWriter, themed to look like my old WordStar and toggled to make typewriter sounds, and I’m happy and productive as hell. Copy and past into Scrivener,…

they make outlining easy, it’s simple to move scenes and chapters about without needing to copy/paste, they have all kinds of settings to help you keep track of things that matter to your story, character sheets, research folders etc, all in one program instead of in dozens of different files that need to be open at…

for some reason, the title made me think this post would contain suggestions or something, on what one should test in a test run.

This is genius. We are leaving for a trip Thursday night and I was fretting about the little one falling asleep too early and how to keep him asleep once we arrived at our destination.

Ah, the “Mom’s junk drawer” pen.

Unless you’re a lefty, then you’ll get ink all over your writing hand. They’re garbage. Pilot G2 is where it’s at.

I’d watch

Just my opinion, but Budweiser is an acceptable cheap beer. It’s just gets a bad rap because of how completely awful bud light is.

Putting a bowl of batter in a second bowl of ice sounds easier than fussing with batter that won’t come out right because of the temp or putting it in the fridge, waiting, testing, and repeating.

They should have a chill off

I think people tend to forget that kids (especially those under the age of 10) tend to find the best pieces of an activity and make the best of it, all thanks to that wondrous thing called “imagination.” Cardboard boxes become houses, spaceships, planes, cars, and caves. Bubbles are miracles of science that defy all…

The park, a small stack of $5 pizzas, and a Target sheet cake. Done.

“Oh my god, she is so BEAUTIFUL! You’re gonna be in trouble when she get’s older, man!”

“You’re gonna be in trouble when she get’s older, man!” That gives me the heebie jeebies.

There are a bunch of articles about earlier sickness (during daycare) helps once they start school. Here is one quick one: