“Please turn the channel. I’m begging you.” It was horrifying, the vision before my eyes. It was a car wreck, a train wreck, an infected scab I couldn’t stop picking and I had only just realized I wanted nothing to do with it. “MOM! I want to watch this! Do you want me to hang [...]

Apart from all the cooking and household tidying and laundry and scrubbing of the kitchen and organizing my pantry, I took some time out on Sunday to get my ye olde fashiony groove on. Sometimes I really dig on the 1940s housewife thing, and this was one of those weekends. My weekly grocery shopping trip [...]

Part of my job—albeit a very small, if not miniscule part—is to post events to Facebook, alerting people of all the fun and amazing events in and around Fresno county. Like pretty much everyone else in this burg, I’ve repeatedly heard the whine that there is “Nothing to do” in this area. Let me disabuse [...]

My calls for help were answered and, as usual, my mom went above and beyond the call of duty. I wanted to make a casserole, one my mom made pretty regularly when I was a child. It was creamy and had ground beef and vegetables and in short, it was perfect for this kind of [...]

On the very first day of the very first month of this brand new year, I stepped on my home scale and let loose a wail of disgust that could be heard clear to Selma. EIGHT POUNDS! I had snicked and snacked my way through the holidays and on up the scale by EIGHT POUNDS. [...]

I’d spent most of my adult life avoiding it. It was curly and green and I suspected it was bitter. It looked like a weed, for crying out loud! And then I read the article that would change my life. Molly Wizenberg’s piece in October’s issue of Bon Appetit: How I learned to love kale. [...]