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...
Two Chais & A Mindy…
Homemade Indian Comfort Food For The Uninitiated….
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers, I am not gonna front. I am probably the least qualified person I know of Indian descent to write a post on cooking Indian food. For those of you who never or rarely make Indian food, it is that very fact that should inspire you to try some of the recipes I will be posting… because if I can do it, anyone can! 🙂 Before I delve...
Mom Life With A Twist….
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...
A Good (Young) Man Is Hard To Find No More… Welcome To The Era Of Peter Kavinsky
Greetings-Treat-A-Weekers, Remember my post in April “For the Young Adult At Heart” about the Netflix TV show On My Block? Well, if you liked that one, you are going to LOVE this week’s recommendation…Netflix Movie To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before starring Noah Centineo as Peter Kavinsky. Before you get all judgey on me and ask yourselves what I am doing watching a teen movie for fun, in my defense, I did...
Mo Money, Mo Problems, Part 2: Frothy Fiction/Dark Center
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers, Hope you had a lovely weekend! I know I did as I got to catch up with some of my favorite girlfriends. Whenever we are together, which is all too rare these days, we share our reading, watching, food, exercise and all-the-things-we-are-loving-right-now recommendations with each other. After 8 years of close friendship born of being moms of girls who were elementary school friends, we now know each other’s...
Apples, Pears, & Easy-To-Make Pie, Oh My!
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers, Before I continue the blog next week with Mo’ Money, Part 2: Books, I thought it would be a good idea to shake off that theme for a week in favor of something more comforting that we should all enjoy this fall….making an easy, not-overly-indulgent (calories-wise) pie with the apples/pears or other homegrown (or orchard grown) fruit. Now before those of you who know me well get all skeptical...
Mo Money, Mo Problems – Part 1
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...
Personal Visioning…
Ahhh, Treat-A-Weekers, it has been too long. Sorry for the quiet last week.. in an effort to keep it real, if I am truly not feeling like spreading good vibes/writing (which is rare) based on something going on my life, I am not going to create a post on that week. I know you will understand. Rest assured, though, I feel a renewed positivity this week and want to share...
Something for you and the teen/tween girl in your life to watch together…
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...
A “just right” TV show to watch with your plus one this summer…
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...