I love you guys — for reading these posts, responding and telling me how much you enjoy my stories and recipes. You’re all awesome and, if I had the time and the money, I’d bake biscotti for every one of you. I can’t do that, but I can give you a gift from GettaSommaDis, my new online store! Go check it out right now! Here’s a link: http://www.zazzle.com/gettasommadis*…
The great thing about freezing cold weather is it forces you to stay inside and find something to do so you don’t go insane. Usually, I go to my freezer, find something I bought thinking I would make something with it, yet never did, and finally make something with it. One pound of ground turkey is currently staring at me from the freezer and its time is coming.…
How sad that today’s kids will never know the thrill of waiting until the sixth time their mother screams their name to actually get moving, then blame it on not being able to hear her. Cell phones have taken the excitement away. Thank God batteries still die, so there’s hope for today’s youth. But nothing can replace the way parents used to have to muscle their kids…
Unless you’re David Copperfield or Doug Henning, you can’t make split pea soup look beautiful. I must have taken 25 shots of it in every kind of light and it still looked like split pea soup. I almost wrapped a feather boa around the bowl, to dress it up, but decided to go with honesty. Because just like with prospective mates, sometimes you have to look past appearances…
Dating can be so difficult. Does he like me, does he not? Why doesn’t he call? Should I call him? Why isn’t he emotionally available? As my mom used to say, “Who loves you comes after you.” She was right — that’s all you need to know about relationships. Unfortunately, this means I am now in love with a cookie.…
Jesus is in trouble. Ever since my father’s house sold last year, he’s been in limbo. I just found my mother’s treasured 8×10 of him in a corner of my bedroom buried under a pile of partnerless socks.…