New Year’s Eve has never been my favorite holiday. I’ve done a lot of reflecting on this over the years and I think I’ve discovered several causes of my New Year’s blues. Firstly, I’m hugely enthusiastic about Christmas. So much so that almost as soon it’s over, I start to wallow in the sad realization […]
There’s just something about September. The first September days feel like full-blown summer. Humid mornings give way to hot afternoons which roll into long evenings. Then, abruptly, it’s back to school season. That first real change feels like a seasonal transition but it’s really only a shift in routine. A long day at school could […]
I’ve written a lot about my childhood birthday cakes but my barbie cake was really something special. My mom very lovingly made it for me and I can remember being absolutely in awe of her petal pink dress. For a girl very into Barbie, it was the best cake I could have asked for. Even […]
When I was a kid my parents had a birthday party cake book in their cookbook collection that I was slightly obsessed with. The book was very 90s in style with tons of cut-out cakes made to look like objects such as a telephone, a castle, and oddly, a bus. I poured over the pages […]
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