
Song of the Week: “The End of the World As We Know It,” Great Big Sea (cover)
Jun 11th
Only in So Cal: kindergarteners enjoying man-made snow
As I dropped my sixth grade son at school this morning, it hit me. This is my last week as an elementary school mom. Admittedly, I’ve had some time to get used to this idea — eleven years, […] Continue Reading…
My Meta Blog
Jun 2nd
Wait — whoah. It’s June? And I haven’t blogged since February? How! Did! That! Happen! Oh, right: I’m kind of a slacker. This time around, I’m not going to promise to keep to a schedule because if you have any sense at all you won’t believe me. (And if […] Continue Reading…

Chow Bella: Heart-Shaped Meatloaf
Feb 12th
A number of people* have brought it to my attention that despite my claim, when I launched my blog back in . . . when was that? Summer sometime? Well, anyway — despite THE VOW** I made to blog four times a week, in the last couple of months […] Continue Reading…

If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be … La Jolla
Jan 17th
Once my husband and I were at a Mexican restaurant with an English friend. Unfamiliar with several of the menu items, he asked the waitress what “fah-gee-tahs” were. Isn’t it cute how he mispronounced “fajitas”? We all thought so! Once we finished laughing, our friend told us how he’d […] Continue Reading…
Song of the Week: “Chanukah in West Virginia” (Scott Simons)
Dec 19th
With the exception of The Hallelujah Chorus and the Charlie Brown soundtrack, I loathe Christmas music, partly because most songs are like Katy Perry tunes — fun and catchy the first ten times you hear them, fine for the next twenty to one hundred plays, and irritating thereafter — […] Continue Reading…