Homemade confetti cake is a tasty, made-with-love, vanilla-flavored take on a favorite birthday cake. And it’s even more fun with tiers. And just like that, she turned 10. This sensitive, brilliant, talented, curious girl who has challenged, loved and enlightened me has been on this planet for a decade. This stage-loving, dancing, acting, singing, spotlight-craving…
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Good Maine Pizza: Finelli New York Pizzeria
Finelli New York Pizzeria in Ellsworth serves a thin, New York-style pizza with great flavor, texture and taste. It’s good Maine pizza — and worth the drive. I nearly titled this post “the pizza we’ll drive 45 minutes to eat.” And with good reason — that’s precisely what we did last weekend. I really wanted…
Inside the Portland Museum of Art, October 2017
Located at 7 Congress Square, the Portland Museum of Art sits at an intersection of roads and art and culture and coffee. This public art institution was founded in 1882 as the Portland Society of Arts, and bears the distinction of being the oldest and largest public art institution in Maine. Outside, an 8-foot tall…
Garlic Ginger Broiled Shrimp
This post was sponsored by Ling Ling, all opinions expressed in my post are my own. A sweet-savory garlic ginger glaze gives these broiled shrimp a delightful flavor that pairs nicely with the slightly spicy Ling Ling Bibimbap Beef Fried Rice. As a child, I didn’t play sports — not the organized team sports my friends played….
How This Blog Became a Personal History of Sorts
Blogs can record a personal history of sorts. Through the words and photos, they share a story of life and living. What does this blog say about me? Deep breath. This has been my space for nearly 12 years. It’s where I talked about Will as an infant, while I learned to write about food…
Salted Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
Cakey cookies are filled with dark chocolate and topped with a sprinkle of salt in this Salted Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe. It was Saturday night, a rare one in which my kids were home. My son had a friend over and they, together with my daughter, were watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — the…
The Career Book Every Driven Mom, Mom-to-Be and Boss Should Read
Just weeks after giving birth, I started to think about what returning or not returning would mean. I’d never entertained the idea of not returning to work after birth, but suddenly it was heavily on my mind and it was. When I graduated from college, I set out to build a career as a journalist….
The Long Route to A Good School Break Trip
One year, the kids and I drove to Philadelphia for a school vacation. On our first day, we walked to a little restaurant where we ate paninis and planned our adventures. We spent days wandering around museums, historic sites and taking tours. We ate again and again from the vendors at the Reading Terminal Market….
Exploring Creative Processes: Writing Spaces and Herbal Teas
Dunkin’ Donuts has a new line of premium hot teas, perfect for sipping in your quiet writing space — if you’re a writer like me. This post was sponsored by Dunkin’ Donuts but all opinions are my own. There’s a dim nook inside my bedroom. It’s narrow — barely more than three feet wide, if…
My 7 Goals for 2017
I didn’t choose a word for 2016 — at least not one I can remember. I didn’t really make any resolutions either. And my usual list of goals for the year was absent too. Last year was the year I decided to wing it. To see where life took me. To put one foot in…