
When I was a young girl, I had a play kitchen in a corner of our basement. I would create an entire “house” down there. It was dark, dank and made of concrete, but it was mine. I decorated it just the way I wanted with doilies and dolls and dandelions [...]

Since many people have recently embarked on a journey to reclaim their health by shedding excess fat, it is an auspicious time to share my own wisdom on the subject. Not that I’m an expert, but I have lost weight in the past: baby weight, alcohol weight, college weight, comfort [...]
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If you’re a Facebook fan of Herbal Philosophy Teas, you probably know by now that our teas are officially on the shelves of a Whole Foods Store in Seattle. (Will someone please pinch me so I know I’m not sleepwalking?)
We made some subtle changes to the [...]
The recipes on stonesoup by Jules Clancy and her associated e-cookbooks are genius in their simplicity. If you, like me, are obsessed with eating gourmet food (vegetarian & non-vegetarian), but have virtually no time to spend in the kitchen, your culinary life may be changed.
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This week’s words of wisdom are in the form of a blog entry rather than a quote.
Leo at Zen Habits, after years of terrible health (overweight, addicted to junk food, smoker), is in the best shape of his life and enjoying [...]
“Until your fundamental relationship with yourself is healed, then your relationship to food is doomed to be neurotic.”
~ Marianne Williamson in “A Course in Weight Loss”
Here’s a person, wise and famed, expressing the theme of of self-love leading to [...]

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! On Thursday, I made my husband’s family’s mac’n’cheese recipe and an apple pie. We joined good friends for a sumptuous feast and fun and games and some good old fashioned competition.
This was my first Thanksgiving as a mama. Unless you count last year because I was pregnant. [...]

If you hadn’t noticed, this blog is a hodgepodge of wisdom on life and parenting and health, pictures of family and babies and friends, writings of stories and poems and random thoughts, and of course, recipes. I refuse to label myself as a mommy blogger, a food blogger, or a writer-blogger.
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It seems that I become more fascinated with cooking as time passes. Perhaps stemming from my love affair with fresh, gourmet food. You are what you eat and I want my family and myself to be organic and healthy. But this is no easy feat. The process of planning, [...]
Watch this video to see Giovanna quite literally stick her head in a melon:
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