Savvy Eats

My favorite place to spend an afternoon is a U-Pick farm, gathering fruit and vegetables and enjoying the upstate New York views. I have a spreadsheet in my head of which farms have what and when and how much they charge. For strawberries, I split my time between the tidy organization of Brookside Berry Farm [...]

It isn’t easy to met people who aren’t students in a small college town. I wrote once, nearly two years ago, about my struggles to make friends in Ithaca.  I’ve come a long way since then. Last week, my book club had our first “official” meeting. We met at Megan’s to talk about Ann Patchett’s [...]

We’ve been home for nearly four days now, and I still haven’t had the time to go grocery shopping.  And yet we haven’t gone hungry, nor have we resorted to eating processed convenience foods.   Instead, we’ve had waffles and canned peaches, pasta with tomatoes & fresh oregano, and pulled pork from the freezer. Last [...]

Two of our favorite game-night friends, Adam and Laura, moved to Virginia last month.  We’re bummed because they were always down for dinner and game playing late into the evenings.  Plus, they’re the ones with the huge game collection. They moved the bulk of their things at the very beginning of May, then came back [...]

It was a busy weekend, one in which Dan and I spent very little time together. He was busy with baseball, and I was preoccupied with getting the garden cleaned up and planted.  So we took the time to make dinner together on Sunday.   While Dan grilled the ribs from the Piggery, I made [...]

We spent Saturday morning at the Farmers’ Market, the first of the season.  They have put down a new layer of gravel in the parking lot since we were there last fall, this time with larger rocks than usual.  The stones were loose, not yet packed down by cars carrying market-going families, forcing us to [...]

Too often, we get caught up in our day to day routines and forget to appreciate the little things in life.  In myLittle Things series, I like to honor the details that are making me happy today, and ask you to do the same! The Little Things making me happy today are… 1.  My travel tea [...]

So often, we get caught up in our day to day routines and forget to appreciate the little things in life.  In my Little Things series, I like to honor the details that are making me happy today. Now, I ask my readers to send me a photo and note about what is making THEM happy today. [...]