Up until a few weeks ago, I had never made my own applesauce. I think I placed it on a pedestal next to canning. Lots of work, lots of dishes, not worth it. Then my favorite blogger, Skip, mentioned that Martha Stewart has his recipe on her website. I clicked over, and it has two [...]

Caitlin said I should stop wearing so much black. I never really got it until I took these pictures on Sunday. I wanted to enter Tiffany’s statement piece style challenge, and I wanted to wear this jacket I thrifted for $2 at the store right next to my apartment, but when I looked at these [...]

I don’t think I talked about how the first (successful) cooking club night went? After my first attempt where nobody showed up, we ended up with one married couple, and four women other than myself in attendance. I showed them how to make kale chips, the green smoothie you see below, and carrot ginger soup [...]

This year was my first attempt at hosting Thanksgiving. We emailed some friends (they have a son the same age as ours, the husband is in business school, and the wife is one of my favorite people in the area (oh, and they just got back from Italy as well!)) and they agreed to come [...]

That’s what Richard J. Mouw says. At this point, I’ll take it. I’ve seen plenty of articles that point out the technical meaning of the word cult, and how Mormonism fits into that little box because it is outside of the prescribed norm, but I find the discussion frustrating because it’s not what people mean when they [...]