A Varsity Letter From October

A Blogtoberfest Guest Post by Joe Schneiderman Originally, I was going to write about how my life changed last October and how I wrote for 11 hours in a 24 hours period to try to save the day legally while my relationship to my father disappeared. Age, hopefully, brings wisdom. Long drives across Western Massachusetts … Continue reading A Varsity Letter From October

The Unexpected Pleasures of More Than a Decade of Reading Harry Potter

A Guest Post by Leo Babauta Recently, I finished reading Book 7 of the Harry Potter series with my youngest daughter Noelle. We cried, laughed, gasped in shock, cried some more. It was quite a journey, reading all seven books with her, and it took us four or five years. Amazingly, it was my fourth … Continue reading The Unexpected Pleasures of More Than a Decade of Reading Harry Potter

October Food 2017: The ‘Seriously though, what’s in this’ Edition

Every year around this time, I enter my altered state by the light of the moon...and start researching for my annual October Food post. As the winds howl outside, you'll find me: traipsing around the internet trying to uncover weird-ass eating trends from all over the world. 2017's quest did not disappoint. Four trends bobbed … Continue reading October Food 2017: The ‘Seriously though, what’s in this’ Edition

SKC Page 4: Avocado Dip

Next up: Avocado Dip, which is not guacamole, but could play it on tv. We had a friend over for dinner recently, and therefore our first outside-taste-tester in the Small Kitchen Cookbook cook-down. This is also one of the first times in the book  that the reader/home cook is presented with what seems to my … Continue reading SKC Page 4: Avocado Dip