Cleaning Up My Act
It’s 2020! In the spirit of reflection on what felt like one of the longest yet quickest years of my life, I wanted to share some of my triumphs and failures on a big undertaking of mine. One of my goals for 2019 was to …
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Molten Mocha Cakes for Two
I finally just watched Chef, written and directed by Jon Favreau, which I was super excited to watch when I found out it would premiere and screen at South by Southwest last year. I didn’t get a chance to watch it there, and then I …
A Pumpkin Pie for Grandma Yaya
November was a really weird month. I turned 30. My grandma passed away, and the next day, I went to a funeral for another relative and then rushed over to a funeral home to help plan my grandmother’s funeral and pick out her casket – …
D*ck Cookies (Brownie Roll-Out Cookies and Basic Sugar Cookies)
Yes ladies and gentlemen. You read that right. D*ck cookies. I tried to think of a less crude, less NSFW, cuter name to call them. But there’s no getting around it. I made d*ck cookies. And I made them twice. You now can freely lower …
Gorgeous Strawberry Blonde Bars (Strawberry Lemonade Bars)
This is a tale of love and loss, fulfillment and heartbreak, happiness and anguish. This is a tale about my first love…at work. You meet a lot of people in the workplace. If you’re lucky, you’ll figure out who the crazy people are right away …
Earl Grey Lemon Bars
I know I recently complained about the New Year Resolutioners that crowd my gym every January, and I’m glad to finally be able to say it’s become a little more normal. Now that I can finally work out relatively in peace, I’ve been trying to …
Chocolate-Mint (Nightmare Before Christmas) Pinwheel Cookies
Lingie sent me a FANTASTIC link about writing earlier today. Please read it, especially if you write. I was totally inspired to flail my fingers away helplessly across a keyboard after driving 90 minutes in rush hour traffic to a restaurant my mom picked for …
Adieu 2012
For the longest time while I was growing up, I couldn’t wait to get old – even into my twenties. Getting older was exciting because every birthday, I’d look over my shoulder at the year prior (or a few years prior), and thank my lucky …
