A few days ago when I pulled up to the house after rounding up kids from school, there were noticeable changes on our front porch. Santa mats had been placed inside and out the front door, a cranberry red wreath hung on its hook and several poinsettias had...

Photo credit: BBC Last night I posted a quick bit on Facebook about a great meal I threw together, which comes from Gwyneth Paltrow's first cookbook, My Father's Daughter. Given the response and requests for the recipes, I thought I would make this my blog post today. Nothing...

Nervous about letting people into my world with the start of this blog in August, my husband, Luis, told me a wise thing: “Mel, you’re going to learn more about other people writing this blog than they will about you.” I didn’t know exactly what he meant until...