How Holidays Can Help... First let me start by saying that it's Rosh Hashanah today, I'm waiting for our challah bread dough to rise, and I'm not Jewish. Also, my kid had a massive meltdown last night and I'm trying to recover by engaging her in the therapeutic act of making bread. Although she was much better this morning I think we both needed to punch something, and dough is perfect. So my husband, who is Jewish, went off to work for half a day and we beat the hell out of

In the Beginning Hello! First blog post here. I guess I should start by saying that I've been very inspired by Penelope Trunk and her wonderful website penelopetrunk.com. Her first tidbit of information that truly inspired me is basically to cut through all the bullshit in your head and just start writing. She also suggested using Blogger instead of keeping your blog on something like Wix, as it's supposed to better for SEO, blah, blah, blah, so here I am. I suppose I shoul