Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
Dear Millicent, I have a family member, let’s call him Uncle Frank. Uncle Frank doesn’t know when to leave. He will stay at our place long after all our other guests have left, completely ignoring all subtle hints about the lateness of the hour like pointed yawns and comments about having to get the kids …
It’s Thursday again already and who’s ready for another Thursday Night Cocktail ? Join me, won’t you? In case you’ve forgotten, tomorrow is Halloween and it’s going to be costumes and candy and kids and rainbow coloured-barf and screaming and candy-trade fights and…this can’t just be at my house. I don’t know how it works …
For those of us who came of age during the Freddy Krueger and “Hollywood Chainsaw Hooker” era – I’m guessing the person who green-lit that movie is now working as the set designer for a musical comedy remake of Hamlet at a backwoods dinner theatre – we see shadows where there aren’t any, and hear …
The International Diabetes Federation says the global burden of diabetes will surge from 382 million to 592 million by 2035. That is a lot of people suffering from an often preventable disease. It is also estimated that one in ten people have or will have diabetes worldwide, and the age of onset is getting younger …
Pasta is unleavened dough formed into various shapes and boiled. Did you know that there are over 600 shapes of pasta and that their names describe their shapes? Spaghetti means cord, vermicelli means little worms (ew), rotini are spirals … you get the idea. Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine with the …
Dear Millicent, I am a person who feels things. I am quick to laugh, quick to empathetic tears, and more distressingly, quick to “oh my god, your stupidity is making me rage volcano spew fiery hot lava through my veins.” When issues arise because of other people not using a single ounce of logic or …
We’ve covered the many benefits of kids participating in sports and arts based extracurricular activities in Top 10 Benefits of Sports-Based Extracurricular Activities and Top 10 Reasons Your Kids Need Arts-Based Extracurricular Activities. You evaluated your options and chose an activity (or a few!) and hopefully your child is enjoying their activity and everything is tickety-boo …
I sometimes like to brag about how terrible my job is. “Welp,” I said, “Today I’ve an assignment to make and photograph an alcoholic coffee drink. It’s a hard job, but someone’s got to do it.” Rotten tomatoes ensued, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I do like working as a food blogger. It …
