Hey friends, This Tuesday, Chris and I are taking our three kids on a camping trip around Europe for a month (I say camping, but there will be some hotel stays and Airbnbs along the way). The purpose of this trip is to have quality time together as a family, as well as teach ...
Off to Italy to Interview The Gelato Authority, Andrea Fassi
Do you know the difference between Italian gelato and ice cream? I bet you do, but until two weeks ago, I really had no clue. While they are both cold, creamy and delicious, I thought of gelato as being like the complicated, bilingual, well-traveled, private school cousin of ice ...
Easy Irish Soda Bread Recipe
In a total stroke of luck, my husband and I recently had the opportunity to take a road trip around the perimeter of Ireland. Â During our trip, we toured castles, got pooped on by a fertilizer tractor (long story), saw countless cute little fat sheep, and met incredible people. ...
Omni Grove Park Inn: Recipe for Success
For the last 25 years, the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina has hosted the National Gingerbread House Competition.  The competition began as a community gathering, and over two decades has become one of the most noteworthy holiday baking events ...
Fortune Cookie Quest
Following in the footsteps of my daughter, I hopped from stone-to-stone, ensuring not to step on any cracks in the rocky pathway. We played under Redwood trees at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. How in the world did we end up there? ...
It’s what’s on the Inside that Really Counts
The Greenbrier resort is stunning from the outside. Â The hotel is nestled so proudly into the mountains of West Virginia. Â Yet as incredible as it is on the outside, it is what is behind it's walls, underneath it's floors, and behind its doors that truly dazzles. The purpose ...