Good morning and good week Treat-A-Weekers! I’ve a busy day and week ahead of me so let’s jump right in! I am currently obsessed with the show Younger. Haven’t heard of it? Well, I am not surprised because it airs on something called TV Land, stars Sutton Foster (a well-known Broadway actress) and Hillary Duff (yes, of Lizzie McGuire fame) and was just kind of off my radar. My husband travels a...
Younger
(Modern) Brit Love
So, once upon a time, I was an American Expat living in England. Before you go thinking, that sounds cool/fun/exciting, you should know that I was miserable in modern-day London-town (specifically the Richmond/Twickenham area) for one whole year. I hold my husband, the weather, and movies like Notting Hill, Love Actually, and Bridget Jones Diary personally responsible for my predicament. You see, we moved for my husband’s professional “opportunity of...
Beach Reads
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers — so I am feeling guilty because I didn’t get a chance to post last week, but forgive me, I was on vacation. The good news is that said vacation has provided me with the down time necessary to do some beach reading and come up with two awesome suggestions for you all. The perfect beach read, in my opinion, has to be a story without a lot...
For The Young Adult At Heart….On My Block
Ok treat-a-weekers, this post is not going to be for everyone — action/adventure peeps, sci-fi folks, crime lovers, deep dramatic dive watchers – look away. This post is only for those of us who love the firsts — first love, first real friendship conflict, first true exploration of oneself/identity…basically teen stuff. So, the show I am recommending today is on Netflix and it’s called On My Block. Each episode is...
Sunday Comfort Dinners…Roast Chicken and Garbanzo Beans
(My version of the [skinless] roast chicken and chickpeas) Ever since I was in junior high, I pretty much dreaded Sunday nights. Sunday nights meant an end to the weekend break, fun, rest or socializing and lots and lots of homework. Our family of 5 growing up often had very busy weekends, but my mom, a pediatrician, somehow almost always made the time to create and feed us a yummy...
Never saw THAT coming…
Greetings Treat-A-Weekers, this next recommendation is not normally something I’d include in my blog because it does not qualify as a “feel good” – there is not a single sweet or saccharine thing about it. That said, the twists and turns in the plot of this movie and the story and the amazing acting by Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett who play two high school teachers make it an unexpected...
Comfort Films
Okay, so my entire family is in town – parents, sister, nephews, brother etc., so this post is going to be a quickie. You know how sometimes your brain is too fried to cozy up to a good book and you just want to watch something delicious that comforts you? Well, I have two Irish inspired treats– one for the more refined palette and one for those of you...
My Favorite Thing To “Get Stuck Into”…
…hands down is a book (and don’t you just love that British-ism BTW :))? Yes, I know we have established that I love TV, but a negative, unintellectual stigma was (& arguably still is) attached to watching TV when I was growing up (kind of like screen time and today’s kids) and I had to keep a handle on how much I watched lest I become the subject of parental...
Dinner Party Music
I am really excited about this post because I am about to help people of a certain age like mine (you know who you are) trying to throw a sophisticated, fun, effortless-looking (yeah, right) adult dinner party with the answer to your most pressing ambience question. What music should be played in the background? It has taken me 15 years to find the answer, but patience is a virtue and...
Blog Post Numero Uno – The Journey Begins…
Friends, this is the first blog post I have ever published in my life! Wish me luck and go easy on me, please! My first post is going to be about my first love, television. As a sheltered, all-girls’ school attending, child of the 80s, watching TV was one of my all-time, favorite activities. Not impressive, I know, but this blog will be nothing if not truthful. Anyway, by sixth...