Gimme 5 – Favorite Summer Foods

I love the slower pace of summer and along with it, the farmer’s markets and fresh foods. I wish we didn’t have a deer ridden garden with little to show for our efforts, but that’s what we have at the moment. I wish I could pull all of our fruits and veggies from the garden…

Do You Have Wicked Thoughts?

I just finished reading Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. I know, I’m behind the times, or this shows just how out of control my reading pile really is. I thought Wicked was a meandering but entertaining backstory for the beloved Wizard of Oz. It took me 4 or…

Morality for Beautiful Girls

I’ve hit my reading pile hard so far this summer — My mom gives me a pile of books every so often and I finally made it through a couple of them. I finished these in a week after not having read anything but magazines for months. The book I finished this weekend is Morality for…

What’s Your Favorite 4th of July Hometown Parade?

I love 4th of July. I love what it stands for. I love that I live in a Democracy. I love that I live in a country where the founders felt it important to include all view points, not just their own. I love that the founders came to a balance of power rather than…