Pumpkin Delight

New Year's Eve is often billed as the event of the year, but I have found it doesn't really live up to its hype.  Not unlike Valenti...

It's always a relief to have finished all the Christmas shopping.  Gifts for kids are pretty easy.  Even if you don't know what to b...

A few weeks ago, BuzzFeed posted a "story" about how employees in their London office were given maps of the US and were asked to...

One of the reading groups in class has been reading biographies/studying people who have made a difference over the last couple of weeks.  T...

"It is like a firehose aimed at us from the south of Hawaii," was the news report this weekend about the rain forecast for this we...

After my first trip to Italy about 10 years ago, I came home obsessed with making my own pasta.  Up until that trip my only experience with...

If you are celebrating Thanksgiving today, I hope it's a great one with family and friends (and good food)! The teacher in me l...