Welcome back to the Roaring Twenties, my friends!! I bet you all thought I had abandoned you/this blog. I didn’t. First it was that I was busier than anticipated after vacation and then I was dealing with some health challenges and then I was working on some personal projects which I may share here in…

Today is Jane Austen’s birthday. To say her work had an impact on my life would be putting it far too mildly. Reading Dickens and Austen positively challenged my reading comprehension and vocabulary and inspire my reading and writing to this day. Classic literature, especially Austen, set such a high standard that I am to…

Today is our 8th wedding anniversary. Eight years of ups and downs, but when you know you have the right person in your corner, you know you can take on all the “downs” along with the “ups.” Eight years down, a lifetime to go! When we first got married, though the Mr is an accomplished…

Recently, one of my girlfriends was going on and on about the jambalaya she recently made one night for dinner. Hers was a bit non-traditional, but boy did it get my taste buds hankering for jambalaya! I like a slow-cooked, super-authentic dish like the next foodie, but often weeknights are busy and frankly a simple…

If you’re American, are you tired of turkey yet? I’m not, but then again I look forward all year to Thanksgiving food. Granted I’m an adult and I could make Thanksgiving happen any time of the year, but it wouldn’t be the same. There’s so much nostalgia (and a touch of preparation anxiety) attached that…

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Thanksgiving food overload on your feed to bring you a gentle reprieve from the turkey prep, et all. I have a strong love for Thanksgiving food. Christmas is my favorite holiday, but Thanksgiving food is, hands down, my favorite by far. Growing up, I always wondered what my mom had…

This rain and chill have been hindering my running plans lately. It’s frustrating, but I’ve just been trying to give myself grace in it all. I’m also at a particularly tough part in my training schedule, I’m having to really push through a mental wall. The delays don’t help. Another thing about this time of…

I know I talk a bit about eating lighter and better lately and about working out more. My fascination with baked goodies may seem counterproductive, but honestly all the aforementioned is what allows for us to enjoy the creativity that happens in our kitchen. I’ve always had a bit of a sweet tooth, so this…

One of my favorite streaming shows right now (which also happens to be in its final season) is The Man in the High Castle based on Phillip K. Dick’s alternative history novel of the same name. It’s one big scenario of “what if the Axis Powers had secured victory over the Allied Forces in WW2…

It’s cold! But we ate a salad last night for dinner. We’ve been training more lately for our Turkey Trot. I say training because it has been probably over a year since we ran a race. We used to run 5Ks regularly. Just about every month I would find a fun one for us to…