On Tourtière, or French-Canadian Meat Pie

Tourtière. There may be no other more polarizing dish in my family than Tourtière. With…

A Letter to My Daughter Before the 2016 US Election

How To Make The Rebel Within (Without Losing Your Mind)

Uncle Rejean’s Spaghetti

My uncle Rejean took his life in 2000, and that’s where his story ends.

Sorry. A little morbid on that count. I just didn’t want to throw that in at the end. Because that’s not exactly what this is about.

I Let Martha Stewart Cook for Me for a Month

I have always prided myself in being a home cook. Home chef. Cooking for my family has been, most of the time, a pleasure. A way to wind down from a long day at work and flex my culinary muscles. For ten years it’s been my primary responsibility, not…

Dear My Son’s Class: Introducing Your Disabled Child to a New Class

Pumpkin Stuffed with Everything Good

Like all good recipes, this one begins with a dream.

Squid Chat: Beauty Products

Behind the diaphanous Glittersquid.com curtain, the six of us check in with each other most days on Slack. We’ve been doing this for about a year, often ending spirited cross-country conversations by pointing out to each other, “You know, if someone just copied and pasted this…

Conversations on Fall Planner Season

We have a fairly well documented obsession with planners here, particularly between Lissa and Jackie. Last fall we couldn’t stop talking about our new Midori Traveler’s Notebooks, and Jackie even made this unboxing video after buying hers.