The lights are always pretty.
Here are some of ours (the boys each have their own menorah).

Well, its been a long time since I’ve posted much. And since I’ve promised to post photos (just click on them to enlarge) of my trip, I figured I’d better do it before the season has passed.
About a week and a half ago, we took the boys to my hometown. But instead of staying locally, [...]

Tags: finger lakes, research, wine, Writing

A Wiffer pointed me to this blog posting – the list is copied from Very Good Taste. It is a list they made of 100 things that they think every good omnivore should have tried once in their life. They have thoughtfully created links to a number of the stranger foods (I had to go [...]

I have discovered something wonderful about my new toy iPhone… I’ve never been one to use the camera feature on my cell phone, the images just weren’t worth it. They’re still not great, but the iPhone makes it really easy to use.
Anyway, I was at the bookstore this past weekend when I broke down and [...]

This morning I cooked my sons fried egg sandwiches and found this:

Apparently they’re very rare and the chicks will not hatch (they can’t acess the air pocket when there are two in the egg).  For way more info than you probably want, you can read Twin Yolks and Twin Chooks?
The kids thought it was pretty [...]

I’ve been reading a lot of non-fiction in preparation for writing the next book this fall. The title of this post is one of these books (by Mary Roth Walsh – 1977).  Yes, its an old book, but I was after the historical stuff… She chronicles and examines the history of women becoming physicians from [...]

Tags: female physicians, medical school, women physicians

As many of you know, I’ve recently moved. One ongoing debate about our new house is what we should do (or not do) about the fireplace in the kitchen. The last owners did some renovations and in the process the original kitchen became the family room and the family room became the kitchen. As such, [...]

I’m still here. But my writing, including this blog, has slowed WAY down.

I was in the middle of moving.
But now the boxes are unpacked, curtains are up, and most of the pictures are hung (don’t ask about the cellar, we’re pretending its not there). Its time to start writing again.
I bravely sent out [...]

Caryn is a fellow Wiffer whose blog I’ve been following closely. She also takes beautiful photos which she shares on her new photo blog. I even won my very first ever prize from a random drawing – an autographed copy of Jess Riley’s Driving Sideways. Given the online interviews that Caryn, [...]

Last weekend my husband and I took our two boys (and the dog) to visit my parents. I grew up in the ‘Endless Mountains’ of Pennsylvania and as a teen lamented the lack of things “to do”.

My boys, however, think that a trip to grandma and grandpa’s house is a huge treat. This weekend, [...]