A lot of the adjustments when the kids move out are pretty easy -- less laundry, a lower water bill, not as much "stuff" around the house. But it's really hard to get a handle on the food situation when you go from four to two. Often I buy more
We've been in our house for 18+ years and it didn't take long for us to build a garden. I've never had much of a green thumb and I always thought of gardening as an activity for retirees. But there we were, parents in our 40s with two 10-year-old boys,
In my early days in NYC, I was on a mission to find the best and biggest muffins in town. Two places stand out -- Lincoln Square Deli and a bakery near NYU, where I was taking courses toward my Master's degree. I think the muffins weighed 4-6 ounces, for
Somehow as I've gotten older, the number of pills I have to take has grown. I even had to get a weekly pill holder to keep me on track. In the mix are calcium and vitamin D, vitamin B-12 (I'm mostly vegetarian), and a blood pressure pill. So understandably I
First, the figs. Years ago, my colleague and friend, Stephen McCauley, asked me to bring him back fresh figs from a shopping adventure in Florence, Italy. At the time, he worked for the PR firm Porter Novelli and was in charge of the meeting I was attending. The month was
If you've met my mom, you know that she's a wisp of a person, not someone I'd take with me if I was a tornado chaser. I visited her a few weeks ago on my way home from a Dannon Institute Nutrition Leadership Institute meet-up at the Experimental Biology meeting