Dear Santa, Do you remember when we all were wishing for a laundry list of things last year? 2020 was going to be the year of perfect vision, and yet the visions of dancing sugarplums did not look like covid-19, isolation + politicians from both sides of the aisle caring about their own agendas than […]

I’ve been having a lot of fun with infusions lately, not just with tea, but with spirits to make the holidays special when we can’t get together for parties this year. Last month, I shared the apple infused vodka and this month, well… I wanted something that would mix well with hot chocolate because it’s […]

I hated nuts in any dessert when I was younger. My mom even called carrot cake boxed mix ‘spiced cake’ because I equated carrot cake with walnuts and wouldn’t have eaten it. I loved that cake mix though. Years later, I was living in NYC, and my parents invited me to meet them in Boston […]

My grandmother was very traditional, and yet quite progressive at the same time. She was one of the first female lawyers in the 1950’s when many women didn’t hold those positions. She thought everything was ‘marvelous.’ She went against the grain at times – being married 3 times and divorcing three times, which again was […]