Allow me to introduce you to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: gritty city, full of heart and and pride, and while most of our collars are blue, the rest of the place is draped in black and gold. Da 'burgh, as it's affectionately called by its inhabitants, boasts 90 different neighborhoods. My ... » Learn More about Primanti’s, Yinzers, and Black & Gold: Mapping My State
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I’m Going to Alaska
As I type this, I'm wearing jeans and a tank top, and my swollen feet are donning flip flops for the first time in what feels like years. The sun is shining and--wait, what's that?--BIRDS. Birds are chirping. My windows are open and a warm breeze is slipping through just enough to gently sweep my ... » Learn More about I’m Going to Alaska
Here, Have a Potty.
It's that time again, pals. Potty training time. Because this isn't my first rodeo, I don't have grand illusions about it going well. I wish I were more optimistic, but after lengthy training sessions with my son, I am what you call realistic this time around. Those lovely parents who tell ... » Learn More about Here, Have a Potty.
The River Lodge is for Lovers.
Before we had kids, Zach and I would steal away for a long weekend every year to celebrate the biggest joke of a holiday: Valentine's Day. It wasn't that we particularly cared to encourage this Hallmark scam or that we were fond of paying twice the price for...everything. It was just that, in the ... » Learn More about The River Lodge is for Lovers.
“Mommy, I Can Help!”
I don't know what it is about my toddler, but she loves to help, as long as helping is making a bigger mess and extending a ten minute task to a full half hour. But if the satisfied smile on her chubby little face isn't worth it, then I'm not addicted to chocolate and sarcasm. And I am both. ... » Learn More about “Mommy, I Can Help!”