appetizer

Last year, at the end of summer, Dad and I discussed where we would be building our new vegetable garden. We have…

We are officially ‘at the farm’. It is amazing how transformative it is to move from the centre of the city to…

At one point in my life, I was running two businesses, raising my children and kennel training our beagle. It was wild, but…

I have belonged to the same book club for years. Every 4 to 6 weeks, one of us acts as hostess. The hostess is responsible for…

Mother’s Day takes on a whole new meaning when your children have moved away from home. I am sitting in my kitchen…

For the last 23 years, Friday nights have been “date night”. Ralph and I are entrepreneurs. As such, we have never enjoyed a 9…

Whenever Ralph and I go away, I have usually let our refrigerator get pretty low on food. Unfortunately, we flew home on…

Caprese salad is absolutely positively completely my favorite lunch. The first time that Ralph and I went to Italy, I ate it…

I think one of the most difficult times in my life, as a mother ,was the moment that I realized I would…

Before Meg left for work yesterday morning, she told me not to worry about dinner. She had a “special” treat in store…