For Valentine’s Day dinner, we almost always eat pasta. Usually, we make our Italian favorite, spaghetti and clams. This year we’re experimenting with beet ravioli. It’s a Valentine’s color, delicious and the ultimate interactive fun to have with your kids. Food tastes better when you’ve made it together. Pasta is a food that makes everybody happy. It’s perfect for kids …
Love, Love Me Do (deux)
Valentine’s Day will be here soon! Have you shopped for your loved ones yet? Here are a few ideas and inspirational poems that I think would add extra happiness to your Valentine’s Day. The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret …
Mastering the Art of French Eating: love, food and France
You know those books that grab hold of you from the moment you start reading the first few pages? Mastering the Art of French Eating is one of those treasures. Ann Mah’s book will make you hungry for a crusty baguette and thirsty for a good rosé. Her book is about love, food and France. The life-lessons she …
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Five things you might not know about dance
Dancers have a wonderful reputation of being overachievers, super hard-workers and multitaskers who can focus on many things at once. This is why they make the best employees! I think of ballerinas as super heros. There’s a deep history to making these super hero dancers… Here are five things you might not know about dance. …
New Year Traditions from around the world
Welcome the New Year with traditions from around the world. This New Year, my neighbor’s might find me circling my house with my suitcase. Happy New Year! xx Cuba: circle your house with a suitcase at midnight to bring travel opportunities for the year. Brazil: wear white to ward off evil spirits and jump seven ocean waves …
Happy Birthday Little Sister!!
Happy Birthday Paige!! ma petite soeur, music maker in the city of Angels, expert taxi hailer My sister is full of energy. I don’t think she sleeps! She stayed over for Christmas and would have been game for staying up until the kids came downstairs in the early morning if I would have been up …
Celebrating the Holidays at Walt Disney World
Anytime is a magical time to visit Walt Disney World, but from early November through a little after the New Year, is the most magical time of all. Cinderella’s castle is breathtaking when it transforms into a wintry ice castle at night. Each Christmas tree you see is more beautiful than the one before. Our favorite …
TRÈS ASHLEY GIFT GUIDE 2013
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Our tree is up (it’s a real one), decorations are out and we’ve had three glorious snow days off from work/school (have I mentioned I’m a teacher)!? My two young children have loved being home to decorate, bake and play. I’ve enjoyed the time to catch up …
LakeCities Ballet Theatre Presents its 30th Anniversary Nutcracker
THE HOLIDAYS begin with the Stahlbaums’ annual Christmas party…children hungry for presents, too much champagne and a kooky uncle who makes enchanted toys. The whimsical world of E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Nutcracker helps to take us on the journey with Clara Stahlbaum, a bubbly little girl whose parents are having a party on Christmas Eve. For the evening …
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Pumpkin Brulee Cheesecake from FoodNetwork.com
The angels start to sing when people get together over Thanksgiving pie…at least I imagine them singing “hallelujah.” Especially when this season’s pies are the homiest, and most satisfying, somewhat like that rush of good feeling that comes from being warmed by a crackling fire on a cold day. There’s always room for dessert. This …
Veterans Day: A Day to Remember
This Eisenhower photo with Snoopy ran in 1998. Read what Charles Schulz says about this particular D-Day strip: “Of all my D-Day cartoons, this Sunday page created the most interest from readers, who remarked that it was often the only reference to that momentous day of June 6, 1944, in their newspapers. Most gratifyingly, I …
Amelia Earhart: 5 Things You Might Not Know
Best known for being the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) is America’s most famous female pilot. Born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24th to Edwin (a lawyer) and Amy Earhart (daughter of a wealthy judge). Amelia was eleven-years old in 1908 when she saw her first airplane. She …