Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
Let’s face it: getting away from it all is on everyone’s mind almost all the time. Maybe this general malaise we feel is rooted in the noise of our lives: running from one activity to another, juggling work, another late night at the rink, pasta sauce that’s exploded on the stove again thanks to a …
I love the changing of the seasons, especially Fall, with it’s red, orange, and yellow leaves. It’s such a show-off. Kind of like this slow cooker applesauce. It takes the very best apples the season has to offer and mixes them into this incredibly easy recipe. So easy that you’ll wonder why you ever made …
I am a workhorse, and I freely and readily admit this. I often plunk myself down in front of my computer at 6:30 am and shut it down at 11:00pm with only short breaks thrown in to make dinner or grab groceries. It’s bad for me; I know this. You know who else it’s bad …
Road trips are a great time to reconnect… When I hear the words road and trip, I think of rolled-down windows and off-key singing to an endless loop of tunes. I think of reconnecting to the person I’m travelling with and laughing at old and newly created memories. When the opportunity to take a road …
Dear Millicent, I’m kind of dreading the holidays, and since the season is on us there’s no escaping them. I love my family and we always have fun seeing each other and eating and drinking way too much, and reunions would be great were it not for one thing. My sister-in-law, who I otherwise see …
Here at Life in Pleasantville we understand that some weeks just cannot be over soon enough. Especially now, as the days get shorter and our waking hours are book ended by darkness, sometimes a gal needs a little medicinal to get her through those especially rough days. It’s not even about the alcohol, really. It’s …
“Yes, that first morning after that life altering diagnosis, when we get up and put one foot in front of the other and begin our first official day as someone with breast cancer, we become Survivors…finding the strength we never knew we could summon and a fight to survive that we never imagined we’d need. …
You spend months planning the perfect vacation. You pick a destination, save your pennies, and remember to update your passports — seriously, check those passports — only to fall sick five days into your trip. What a drag. I’ve been on a lot of trips and I’ve been sick on a few of them when I …
