Making Pasta with a Guitar Pick

This past weekend, my husband’s family got together to try out the birthday present my husband received from his sister: a chitarra. Chitarra (pronounced with a hard k sound, my Italian-class-award-winning niece tells me) is Italian for guitar, and this pasta-making...

Don’t Wanna Go Back!

WAH! A week from tomorrow, the 2010-2011 school year starts for me. The kids have another week off, but teachers return next Tuesday. Here’s how I feel about it:Yup. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not the kids and it’s not teaching that I dread. It’s being forcibly...

Bringing More YA to PA: PAYA 2010

The first annual PAYA Book Festival is only a week away! I am excited to have a small part in this event, taking place on Saturday, August 21 at the Center for Performing and Fine Arts in West Chester, PA.I’ll be one of the authors present, signing books which will be...

Aqua Seas Tour

Last week, my family took a unique and little-known excursion at Disney Epcot’s Living Seas Aquarium. The Aqua Seas Tour is a behind-the-scenes tour of the Living Seas facility, culminating in a surface swim inside the aquarium!The tour behind the scenes was cool. It...

Air Travel Kharma

We came pretty close to having a CNN-worthy incident on our Florida-bound plane last week.But let me back up and say that thanks to my husband and his “don’t go with the herd” mentality, we had a pretty smooth arrival at the US Air terminal at Philadelphia and passed...