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A couple months ago I was taken by an interesting story on NPR in which Tina Brown recommended an article from the Financial Times by Katie Roiphe (I only reference the NPR piece so you guys don’t think I regularly read the Financial Times). The article, titled “Disappearing mothers” posed the question in its subtitle: [...]

A couple Sundays ago, we asked some friends (parents and non) to meet us at Iggies for a late lunch. I have been a fan of Iggies since it opened and was a very frequent customer during my pregnancy. Unfortunately for me, I have not been there since our son was born (nearly two years [...]

Few meals are as quintessentially summer than a hot dog and a cold drink. Hot dogs could once be found only under specific circumstances: at a ball game, a backyard barbeque, from a cart in a busy city. But with comfort foods still having a big resurgence and mobile food stands become de rigueur, the [...]

In case you missed the memo, April is National Grilled Cheese Month. I cannot argue: The noble Grilled Cheese Sandwich (or GCS) deserves not a day, nor week, but an entire month to savor its majesty. To celebrate the glory that is bread + butter + cheese + heat, I was tasked with seeking out [...]

As I write this, my family is prepping for a trip to Austin next week for a dear friend’s wedding. This will be the second time I have flown with my now 15-month old son. The first time was when he was 8 months old, and still nursing, so I had on my person the [...]

Back in 2010 when all of the hullabaloo over Denise Whiting’s (owner of Cafe Hon) trademarking of the word “Hon” came about, I was, like most Baltimoreans, a bit aghast at her nerve. I thought it was definitely a lame move and it doesn’t take a marketing degree to know a pretty big PR faux [...]

Like many, I find most children’s music to be insufferable. I cannot tolerate choruses of shrill-voiced children singing watered down versions of pop songs, and long before my son was born I declared our house a BFZ (Barney-Free Zone). I have always been a bit of a musical explorer and have enjoyed trolling for new [...]