Delicious Finds & Tips To Brighten Your Week
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I’m Back! You didn’t think I’d left you forever, did you? I’m sure you know why I’ve been gone. It’s been one big depress fest since the pandemic began and so I haven’t felt like writing about treats. That said, we’ve needed them now more than ever. So, resolved: I am going to try to write entries to share with you whenever I find things worth sharing that make me...
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers, Did you think I’d forgotten you, this blog and what we are together? Never! Now, before you say to yourself, “summer’s over lady, what’s with the title of this blog post?” you should know that I read, watched, and heard some true gems this summer. Even though summer is now almost a memory, I had to share my finds belatedly. I do so because even though we are...
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers! Happy New Year and I’m baaaaack……I’ve missed writing this blog and I hope you’ve missed reading it. I’ve been reading and watching a wide range of content over the last few weeks that I am excited to share with you. I read two great books which could not have been more different, Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay and Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, and a Bravo docudrama called Dirty John,...
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers, Sometimes I feel guilty for writing this blog. Why? Well, unless you are a Red Sox fan (which apparently Mindy Kaling [above] is and many in my new home city are), life today in this country and (in many others, incidentally) feels heretofore inconceivably messed up. I won’t go through the litany of problems/divisions/destruction (of people, things, ideals, securities, environments) we are forced to confront on an almost...
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers, I had to go on a week-long, all-regularly-scheduled-programming hiatus because “Mom Life” totally overcame me as my little guy (Elmo, above) had a fever for 5 days. Before you stop reading this post thinking to yourself, gag, not another sappy blog post about the worrying yet fulfilling life of a Mom; rest assured, this post is not that. Rather, this post is for those who know being a...
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers, It’s been busy in mi casa getting back into the routine of school and work and saying farewell to another beloved summer, but I’m back! Lately, I have no idea why, but I have been viewing and reading a lot of material that all address the same basic subject — lifestyles of the incredibly wealthy. Before I delve into a discussion of a show and a movie...
Greetings Tweet-A-Weekers, See those dog-earred, 30-something-year-old, yellowing paperbacks above? Yes, well, in the summer shocker of all-time, my 13-year-old daughter R, lover of games, adventure, technology and her friends, read all of them in a couple weeks with zero prompting and LOVED THEM. Admittedly, they had been visibly resting on bookshelves in our home since before she was born and I had told her once or twice that the Anne...
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers, The weather in New England, while hot, is beautiful, grilling is often the order of the day, peach iced tea is being drunk on the regular and everything in my neighborhood is in full bloom. It’s that rare time of the year where being outside in Boston makes one really and truly happy. Eventually, bugs and children’s bedtimes force us indoors, but when the “to dos” are done...
Greetings, Treat-A-Weekers, If ever there was ever a need for bursts/breaks of escapism in our lives, that time is now….which brings me to my recommendation of Sweetbitter. Premiering on the channel, STARZ, only 1 season of this 6-episode show has been released (but I am fairly certain a second season will follow) and it’s based on the national bestselling book by the same name by Stephanie Danler. Danler is one of the...
Ok Treat-A-Weekers, who else is still basking in the feel good afterglow of the modern royal nuptials of Meghan and Harry?? I rose at 4:30 am this past Saturday (I was fasting for Ramadan too so this is not quite as crazy as it sounds because I had to eat breakfast before sunrise). I padded around in my PJs, baked fresh muffins for my teen and her two friends who...