Pimm’s Cup – The CSA Cocktail?

When life gives you vegetables you should make a Pimm’s Cup! I’ve recently joined a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program with several of my office mates. (We are blogging about the organic fruit and veggie experience at OneBoxaWeek.com but I don’t know if they would appreciate me posting about a cocktail over there!) The sometime […]

What Do I Do with All This *%&$#@ Zucchini?

  Zucchini If it is summer, it is zucchini time. It wouldn’t really make a difference if I were in a CSA or not, when it is summer, there is a constant stream of zucchini coming into our house. It seems that everyone plants this in their summer gardens and everyone gets a bumper crop. […]

Top 10 Pet Dangers

Being the owner (or rather custodian) of a new kitten I have been wanting to look up what the potential dangers are around the house. I have enough common sense to realize I can’t leave an Ambien sitting out on my nightstand any longer, but are there any other dangers I wouldn’t ordinarily know about? […]

What’s a Maven Anyway?

Malcom Gladwell defines a “Maven” as an “information specialist”. Furthermore, mavens are “people we rely upon to connect us with new information.” By collecting information and sharing it with others people are influenced to act. As soon as I read this in his now famous book, “The Tipping Point”, I knew he was describing me. […]