Honey, I’m Home

Did you miss me?  I’ve been in Texas for a week, spending Christmas with the family.  The plan was to travel one day, visit five days, and fly home on day seven.  That was the plan.  The reality worked out a bit differently.
I left home last Monday, climbing over banks of concrete-like snow and black [...]

On my way

The sun is out, I’m checked into my flight, the house is clean (okay, cat fur is vacuumed up), and I’m packed.  Of course, I still have to get dressed but I’m delaying as long as possible since I prefer being comfy in a robe and slippers.  The dishwasher is running one last load that [...]

Watching the Weather

When you travel in winter months, and especially if you live in the Northeast, you watch the weather forecast like a hawk.  Multiply that with extra stress when the travel plans are for holiday travel.  I refuse to mess with it for Thanksgiving, which is just one day plus football, crammed into a narrow window [...]

Beginning to Look Like Christmas

Maybe it was the fruitcake baking that got me into the Christmas spirit.  No, actually it was Pandora Radio’s holiday genre stations — folk holiday, jazz holiday, rock holiday, etc.  If you haven’t joined the Pandora band wagon, do it today – lots of music you never heard of but love when you hear.  About [...]

Looking for Really Good Fruitcake?

When I was a child, my North Carolina grandmother used to make us a fruitcake every year using pecans from the tree in her yard (among many other things).  It would arrive in a round metal tin, wrapped inside in an old cotton kitchen towel that had been saturated in bourbon.  Needless to say, it [...]

Food Police, Give Me a Break

Many of Us know all too well the long-term problems we’ve had dealing with our weight and food issues.  We don’t deal with those in isolation:  we have families, friends, work colleagues, doctors, WW leaders, casual acquaintenances, and strangers on the street who all feel it’s their right and responsibility to show us the error [...]