If you walked into my house last week, you’d be quite liable to hear me audibly sigh, and say: Oh sweet potato pound cake. How you teased me. How you hurt me. How you tricked me into thinking I had this cake making stuff in the bag. That maybe I had mastered the skills and [...]
This post is dedicated to my mom. It’s her birthday, you see. And there’s no Hallmark message for what I want to say to her today. And this won’t fit on the inside of a greeting card anyways. Plus I want it to be known what a wonderful woman my mother is (though for the [...]
It’s amazing how long it can take to get “back to normal” after you’ve experienced such sweeping change in your life. New house, new car, new job(s), new lifestyle, really. New title. New status on forms. New last name. (I still have yet to switch over to my new email address with my married name, [...]
I ended up being off for MLK day after all, which gave me time to tackle another cake in my great cake making adventure. Last week it was this sour cream pound cake, this week it’s this lovely brown sugar pound cake laced with crunchy pecans and topped with a cream cheese frosting. Delicious doesn’t [...]
If you’ve been reading this blog for a few months, by now you likely know that I left my job in early December to go find my purpose, as detailed in this post. It wasn’t just a job that I left, it was an entire career. A career in the field I studied, something I [...]
When disasters occur around the world, many of us are left wanting to help but feeling powerless to do so. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I wanted nothing more than to go down to the city of my heart and help rebuild. I thought of how rewarding it would have been for me to [...]
Sometimes when we’re all just at home, I look around the room. And count the number of beating hearts in our house. Under one roof. Three. beat beat beat His mine, and the cat’s. For some reason, It makes me feel not alone. beat beat beat And sometimes I think of how I might like [...]
I guess I haven’t much tried to hide my love for cake here on this here blog (love may be an understatement, but we’ll get to that), though you may have gotten a whiff of it a few days ago when I went on and on about venturing all the way to the North End [...]
Yesterday was just about as beautiful a day as you can get here in the dead of winter in New England. The sun was blindingly bright (still bouncing off last weekend’s snow), the temperature was above 30, and the wind kept itself under control. And for my first day off on my new part-time schedule, [...]
My, my, my. My goodness. My word! Where did we leave off in our wedding recap process? Ah yes. The most important part: the ceremony. The incredible ceremony. When our officiant announced that it was time to line up, Andreas left to walk his mom down the aisle and I had a couple moments alone [...]
