Lemon chamomile mini loaves waiting to be enjoyed. My “staff” meetings are usually a party of one typically held when I am driving,...

I have written at least once already, but maybe twice, about my love for cutting out recipes and inspo from magazines and newspapers. I...

Sunday mornings start with early bakery box deliveries to a few local wholesale clients. In the summer, when the days reach triple...

In 1998, shortly before I began my teaching career, You Got Mail premiered at the theaters. Already enamored with Meg Ryan, I couldn’t...

I am overdue for a blog post, but since no fines are involved like a late library book, I am giving myself a free extension until next...

There are times when I feel like I have boundless energy and then there are times when I need to briefly step back and breathe. So if I...

Sitting cross-legged on the floor, I sort through my growing collection of used records looking for the perfect one to get the morning...

Everyone has stories to tell surrounding ice cream. How could they not? It is so celebratory and versatile. It is like that pair of pants...

Spring has been punctuated by undulating cycles of rain mixed with brisk blue sky days. But stepping outside this morning, a shift was...

I have never had farm animals, but I still dream of looking out my mottled glass window and watching my four-legged friends munch on the...

As I paused under the umbrella of white flowers bathing in the last rays of sunshine before the next storm moved in, I was reminded of...

Knowing all weekend that I was planning on whipping up a batch of macrons Sunday, I have been keeping mental notes of all the wonderful...

When I was in college, I would go to the local bagel shop almost every day for lunch, quarters in hand like a kid venturing to a candy...

Like most kids, my earliest memories of coffee were tasting my mom’s coffee and promptly, and dramatically I might add, spitting it out....

I have always favored print materials over digital - bending back the cover of a book’s old, supple spine, fumbling through unfolding the...

And just like that, holiday baking has come to an end. It was a merry season full of festive scents wafting through the kitchen:...

The hustle and bustle is definitely in full swing. Lines are getting longer, packages are being delivered left and right, parking lots...

My kitchen mimics the tempo of nature - baking and delivering as the birds begin to sing and again when the crickets’ hymns close the...

Each day, more leaves drift down from the trees and decorate my garden with the various shapes, colors, and textures of autumn. The...

Somewhere around late summer when the heat was relentless and fall seemed too distant to even dream about, chaos crept in and all the fun...