Along with chocolate-covered marshmallow peeps and Cadbury mini eggs and a hollow chocolate bunny (Easter candy really is the best holiday candy), the Easter Bunny graced us with another special treat this year – a brand new Fancy Nancy book. In glittery hardcover, no less. As far as books go, Bonjour, Butterfly seemed like a perfect,…
Earlier this week, I published what is quite possibly the most depressing essay I’ve ever written. It was, as my husband noted, “not exactly a feel-good piece,” and as several readers acknowledged, I wish the circumstances were such that its concept was moot (or moo, as it were). But it is what it is, and I…
So, the title of this week’s tapas is fairly meaningless, save for a passing reference to one of my favorite Friends quotes – because I can’t pass up the chance to quote Friends anymore than I can pass up a triple word score in Words With Friends. It’s a compulsion, really. But upon further consideration,…
It was Thanksgiving 2008. Or possibly Christmas. Also, it may have been 2007. Regardless, it was my turn to play holiday hostess to my family… and I was excited. For I had, at long last, found a corner cabinet in which to store and display my china – and along with it, a coordinating Demilune table….
Taking Kylee to her first movie today. Want to come? So read the text from my friend, Arlin, regarding her Saturday afternoon plans with her daughter (and Lil’ Bit’s BFF). Did we want to go to the movies. I don’t know… did we? It’s almost laughable, the surprise I feel at the frequent realization that,…
Idle time is the devil’s playground. Ain’t that the truth? During report card season, it’s not uncommon for Lil’ Bit and me to head to Richmond for a weekend to visit my parents while Jim stays behind to work in the peaceful solitude of a quiet, empty house. And while I don’t resent this (not…
I was having deja vu. It was 3:30 a.m. and I lay awake in my Pittsburgh hotel room seething with anger as I listened to the sounds of a lively party just beyond the wall behind my headboard. It was the first of two nights I was spending in the city as part of a…
Every so often, I read something that resonates so strongly with me, I’ll continue to recall it for months or even years down the line. Such was the case with 10 Reasons Why My Husband Was Meant to Marry a Blogger by Alex at Late Enough, a sweetly funny piece that reminded me very much of the dynamic…
Hello! I'm Kristin, a self-proclaimed city girl now living the rural life with my husband, daughter, and a black cat named Boo in eastern West Virginia – or as I like to spin it, the far western suburbs of D.C.
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