When my doctor’s office called me back a couple weeks following a routine physical, I had a sick feeling of dread. “Irregular pap,” the doctor’s assistant said. Cervical cancer!? My mind panicked. But my mouth, fortunately, knew what to say. “What happens now?”
I Went to an Apple Store and Forgot to Get Kool-Aid
Why haven’t I gotten on the Apple bandwagon? Well, as a matter of fact I’ve been a proud Apple user several times–about once a decade since inception. But the straw that broke the camel’s back was an iBook in 2003 with a huge technical flaw that required its motherboard to be replaced about every 5 months,…
Commas Are Not the Chocolate Sprinkles of the Written Word
Minecraft is Shoving My Son Into the Digital Age and I’m Not Ready
If there was ever something that I thought might try to wrestle the parenting reins away from me, I never, never once thought that it might be Minecraft. Instead, what started as a blocky-looking creative builder game swiftly evolved into the bane of my husband’s and my existence. A few of my son’s classmates played,…
Saving Memories a New Way with OneDay #onedaykids
Much to my family’s dismay, I’m one of those people who seldom photograph my own kid (I see him every day, after all). But I think my real disinterest in photographs are that photographs don’t do the kidlet justice. Sure, he might stick out his tongue or flex his muscles, but that doesn’t give anybody the…
6 Tips to Improve Your Food Photography… Cheaply!
Boost Search Traffic to Your Recipes with Rich Snippets
If I’ve learned one thing during my 18 months of food blogging, it’s that even figuring out the list of things that you ought to know can be a trial… Especially when it’s written in tech-talk. I believe that Google’s Rich Snippets are something that you absolutely must include on the list of things to figure out,…