I purchased a package of battery-operated flickering tea lights from the store for upcoming Halloween decorations. My eldest child’s birthday is 3 days before Halloween so I decided a birthday cake would be much more enjoyable! This petite sized birthday cake is super quick to whip up and is totally low carb, low calorie, low fat! I got white t...

I have a very long commute where I drive to a train station, walk to a train, take a train for 45 minutes, walk to the bus station, catch a bus to my office, and walk a tiny bit more to get to my building from the bus stop. I greatly enjoy listening podcasts, audiobooks, or my favorite Pandora stations but I can’t change what I am listening to,...

I am a gift giver. I have made all my co-workers something like coasters of their favorite things, pets, tiny amigurumi, and small purses. Everyone but one co-worker, Nick, had gotten something in all the time I have been working with them. But what do you get a guy who doesn’t need anything? He plays competitive ping pong and is so into it tha...

As my 9-year-old son stared at the TV, Shark Week on the Discovery Channel was showing a particularly majestic animal. Josh had a million questions on why the shark was so heavy, why they could lose teeth and grow new ones, why it was so hard to tag a shark, and their relation to our fellow mammals in the sea (killer whales are awesome!) I coul...