Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
Seventeen years ago, I travelled to Cienfuegos, Cuba with my scuba diving group and picked up the most memorable souvenir of all – a husband. My future husband-to-be was also travelling with his dive group, and our paths collided, almost literally. Eighteen months after we dove through coral reef off the coast of Cuba, we …
Falling in Love with Couples Swept Away Negril I first fell in love with Jamaica when I was 22. In the years since, I’ve been twelve more times; three trips happening in the last year alone. Needless to say, if you’ve got questions about Jamaica, I’m happy to talk. I can make recommendations for great family …
Throughout my 30s, I was happy with myself. I made time to exercise, even after my first child was born, and I ate well. I weighed myself occasionally, but not obsessively, and I focused mostly on being a healthy human. One of the important parts about being the mom to two daughters is, for me, …
I loved winter as a kid, and now that I have a kid I love winter again, but during the in-between years winter and I were not friends. Now, I love playing with my daughter in the snow and the hours spent on a toboggan, and even how she “helps” me shovel the driveway. Even …
Everything I learned about eating well came from my mom. Of all the things in life she taught me it is the thing I am most grateful for. My mom worked full-time out of the home, and dining out was something we never did. She was literally on the hook 365 days a year for …
Christmas lights are often our first (literal) beacon of the holiday season. We all have that neighbor who runs the county at risk of a power grid-overload, but we usually secretly love when someone overdoes it, because frankly, as long as it’s not us, it’s fun to look at. If we all keep the spirit of …
Skidding out in the snow and ice on a closed course with great winter tires and a professional driver is super fun. What’s not fun? Skidding out on an open road, with no professional driver beside you and multiple hazards to hit. If you haven’t experienced that feeling, then you are obviously not Canadian. My fellow …
I am a British history nerd; I love all things historical, especially anything that involves royal history, going back to the beginning of recorded history. When a friend, who is a member of Netflix’s Stream Team, invited me to an advanced screening of The Crown (a show whose premiere I was already salivating over), my inner-nerd took …
