We are a baseball family. I have been devoted to the Chicago Cubs since the mid-seventies when I fell in love with the game and, ahem, Bill Buckner and Manny Trillo. I even got to meet Bill Buckner. Be still my beating heart. And had he stayed with the Cubs,…
I’m stuck. Uninspired. I have pages worth of brainstormed blog ideas, but none of them are lighting a fire right now. I just haven’t been feeling it for the past few weeks. But I need to keep at this because I’ve set a goal: create a blog that has enough…
Last weekend my friend Sara mentioned she and her college-aged daughter were committing to Whole30 for the coming month. I’d seen the book Whole30 and knew it was a healthy eating diet, but was curious about the details. That got me wondering about other real food diets such as Paleo…
I have a friend who used to make Oreo cereal for breakfast. She would put five or six Oreos in a mug, roughly break them up with a spoon and add milk. She wasn’t a kid when she did this, either. I have been forbidden to divulge this information to…
I have a family history of butter eating. My maternal grandmother served us butter sandwiches. Knowing my Grandma Frisen and her sweet tooth, I’m pretty sure she sprinkled a little sugar on there, too! Butter mint candies were often in her well-stocked candy dish. My grandfather was also a butter…
It seems there’s a National Day for pretty much anything you can think of: National Walk Around Things Day was April 4th. National Root Beer Float Day is August 6; National Cheese Curd Day is October 15. While not nearly as exciting as National Static Electricity Day (1/9), National Asparagus…
