I love working with clay! I find this art form to be very relaxing and rewarding. Starting with a chunk of mud and pinching, rolling, forming the malleable material into your eye’s vision is just the first step. Once fired and bisqued, you then work with the color and glazes, bringing even more life to …
Healthy and quick food is not always readily available everywhere. As a busy working mother, I know how hard it can be at times.As you may have noticed, I have not posted in more than a few days. With the end of the school year right around the corner, my life has gotten even busier …
Sending my daughter off to college some 3,148 miles away from home was hard; teary-eyed, all-emotional, sad-face hard. Now four years later, I am thrilled to report that my daughter has graduated! So why is there sadness? I have come to love the city of Boston and the excellent friends that she has made while …
Enjoy this story told through pictures – I am one proud momma! Two years post graduation, Robert is living and working in Los Angeles. I couldn’t be more proud of the incredible man my son has become. Transparency of Medication Prices
A few days before my first child was born I was frantically planting flowers in the garden. This is California, and I was still trying to get the winter flowers into the ground before my first child was born. My nesting instincts had clicked in full gear and had extended to the yard as well …
Having a dinner party on a Friday night, after working all week, having kids, and sticking to a training schedule, takes a bit of planning and lots of organization. First off, I am all about getting together with friends on Friday nights – but it’s usually order a pizza, toss a salad, and open a …
My stepson looked at me the other day with his wide eyes and big smile and told me that he had a crazy scary thought run through his head. “What’s that?” I inquired. “In three months we will be swimming the San Francisco Bay, and that, that is crazy! We need to start training.” I assured …
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo is a common event in California no matter what your heritage. So even though I am Irish-Scott and French, I have always partaken in the Mexican celebration. Now that I am the step-mother to a son born of Mexican heritage, I have all the more reason to celebrate and honor Mexican …
Mother’s Day is right around the corner, and my husband has been asking me what I might want to do. I can tell you I don’t like heading to restaurants on Mother’s Day – they are way too busy. Crazy busy. I have a few stories of Mother’s Day restaurant brunch fails. I never feel …
The sun was low and the tide was high when we finally trekked over the towering dunes and laid our eyes on the shore. Before us laid doggy Disneyland! Dogs were everywhere darting and dashing in and out of the waves, tumbling and rolling in the sand, running and chasing up and down the shore. …
