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Reinstating my drafts

I have 409 unpublished drafts languishing in my WordPress dashboard. Most are only a few sentences long. Some are fully-fleshed out posts I will never share. As I was poking through the draft folder, I decided to set some free. Their crime was being too short. The title (often just a working title) is in […]

Saturday Siblings ~ So Very Many Italian Plumbers

It started in 2007 with Tommy and Joel. I indulged their love of another brotherly pair—Mario and Luigi. Back then, it was hard to find official Mario and Luigi costumes, but they were easy to make. We already owned about 45 pairs of denim overalls. Because I couldn’t find a green hat for Luigi, I […]

Rainbow (Cupcake) Connection

rainbow cupcakes

I made these rainbow cupcakes for the first day of spring. I think they turned out adorably fun. I take zero credit for the idea. I don’t claim to have invented them. I didn’t perfect them. I didn’t enhance them. I just looked at a photo @mamakat9 posted at Instagram and thought they needed to […]