Meatless Meals: Creamy Spaghetti Squash

I am in spaghetti squash heaven right now! I know I’ve tried it before but like most new foods, it takes me a try or two before I get comfortable with experimenting with it. Once I started thinking, I knew I didn’t want a tomato-based sauce with it. Too easy – spaghetti noodles + tomato…

Motivated: Writing is my chocolate

What started me writing: something pissed me off. A man was killed while hanging out with friends at a local bar – a bar I’d gone to myself with a former boyfriend. My outrage segued to the first letter-to-the-editor I’d ever written, and my first by-line; and that did it. That was back when speaking…

When life cow-tips you, make a new plan

In high school, I always had at least one large bottle of TJ Swann in the back of my closet. I don’t think my mother, and surely not my father, ever knew about my stash. However, they did know that I was the one who refilled the vodka bottle with water; and a quick sniff…