• A Week At The Beach With Young Kids

    Ahhh, the beach. Relaxing days lazily flipping through magazines, or the latest novel your best friend just finished. An even tan, golden, maybe a little rosy across your cheeks. Hair bleached just around your face, kissed from the sun. Quiet dinners surf-side with a glass of crisp, cool wine — or…

  • Ms. Cindy’s Crab Cakes at the Beach

    Heather is the founder of (cool) progeny where her use of parentheses in a blog title is almost as (cool) as mine. I met her online in 2010—we started our blogs and jumped into Twitter at just about the same time. Call it cosmic or whatever … our personalities just synced. Oddly,…

  • For All You Wordsmiths: Indoor Smoke Signals

    This week, you’ll get to enjoy guest posts from some of my blogger friends – the theme? Summertime childhood food memories. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do! I met Chad Thomas Johnston at a little place called #DessertIsland (a fictional writers’ island for all you Tweeps out…

  • Uli Westphal: Fruit Au Naturale

    My cousin shared a neat find on the (a)Musing Foodie Facebook Page the other day. A fellow blogger stumbled upon Uli Westphal, an artist who has taken the time to showcase non-standardized fruits and vegetables in what he’s calling the “Mutato-Project.” What does that mean, exactly? Well. The non-standardized produce…

  • Ice Cream, Frozen Custard And "The Good Ol’ Days"

    I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Or something like that. Admittedly, I don’t keep many sweets in the house — not because I’m afraid of overindulging, or because I’m anti-candy for the kids. Sweets are simply something we don’t crave, and the kids don’t beg for. However,…