I've been watching episodes of NCIS to get me through packing. I'm on season six and still packing, but my eyes are wide open to the many ways someone could do me in. This knowledge will come in handy while driving across the country in a car with 186,000 miles on it.…
After years of living in Southern California, I'm moving back to Pittsburgh to be closer to family. We're all getting older and who knows how many more Christmases we'll have together, so I want to make the most of them. …
I’m coping with Covid and unemployment with exercise. Everyday I hike the local hills. I stop just before I get to the freeway overpass, then turn around and go back. I once walked under it just to prove I could do it, but I know the next time I do the mother of all earthquakes will strike and all they’ll find will be a little thigh fat. Ever…
I may be the only person able to combine those two items in one blog post. (Maybe this is why I’ve never won Food Blogger of the Year.) But, such is my life nowadays. Yesterday I found myself Googling doggie diapers. (Yes, life is riveting.) Topper is now 14 going on 15 and every so often I come down in the morning to find his bed not quite…
My 2021 Wish List: I want to turn on the radio or TV and not hear the word Coronavirus. I want to wake up with a great job, be ten pounds lighter, have a six pack, tiny thighs, and be living in a gorgeous house in Pittsburgh where snow is shoveled for me, unless I’m in the mood for a workout. I’d also like to win the lottery.…
Generally, one thing is usually enough to stress us out. A pandemic would have been plenty with the fear, sickness and death it’s brought. But combine that with job losses, kids trying to learn at home, political upheaval, no outings, throw in the darkness and the chill of winter and it just gets to be too much. We’re all on overload and when things get tough, much like…
Wow, what a December. After much debate, stress, confining ourselves to the same five rooms in our respective homes for weeks, Covid tests, and a very long drive for my daughter, I got to see two of my three kids for the holidays. When my daughter finally got here, we greeted each other with what may go down in history as the longest, most emotional hug we’ve ever…
Growing up, all I ever wanted was to be a normal American. The kind who ate sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies at Christmas. I admit I was a bad Italian.…
I am one of the lucky ones. I get to have two of my three kids for Thanksgiving, and given the state of things today, that’s pretty great. I can’t wait for life to change for the better, but so far, 2020 has been inconvenient, but not tragic. Again, I know I’m lucky. I’ve had time to think, write, and figure out my next steps. I’m so very…
I’d like to say Sir David and I hung out and traded wildlife stories, but instead I watched this 94-year-old, who could just be enjoying retirement, give his witness statement on what’s happening to our planet. And yes, a witness statement is what you give when a crime is committed. If that sounds dramatic, good, because it is. If you have Netflix, you MUST watch David Attenborough, A…