Heather Solos 
Dear Home-Ec101, This evening right before bed, while he was outside letting the dogs out, my husband saw a roach on our back porch. He was barefoot, so he grabbed the nearest object to him so he could try to kill it. Usually a brilliant man, he had a momentary lapse of stupid, and he …
Heather says After becoming very frustrated with my so called programmable thermostat the first chilly morning of the year, I said to heck with this and bought a Nest Learning Thermostat – 2nd Generation T200577. This has been a purchase I was procrastinating after the expense of my move this summer, but I finally reached the …
Heather says: I was going to leave this alone, but I can’t. I know many of you are not bloggers. There’s a fuss going on right now about Martha Stewart saying that bloggers are not experts. Well, I never claimed to be. What Home-Ec101.com has always claimed is: [To be] a site dedicated to teaching …
Trigger warnings: Death and Gun Violence. Heather says: Hi. I used to do the Sunday Confessional as a way to help remind everyone that no one’s life is television perfect. To remind you and myself that what we see on Facebook or wherever is just a snapshot and not the whole picture. To remind myself …
Phil (Heather’s manager at FeedBlitz) says: This summer, I’ve had to watch two close friends endure the unfathomable grief of losing family members to suicide. Heather wrote movingly about the excruciating nature of Laura’s loss here and, as Connie pointed out yesterday this was not the first bereavement in Heather’s family this year. In another …
Connie (Heather’s childrens’ Godmother): A little over 18 months ago, my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly. I learned a few things and realized a few things in that experience that might be helpful to other people, and I’ve been writing this blog post in my head since then. When Heather’s step-sister died three and a …
Heather says: I am raw, grief stricken, and barely functional right now. Please bear with disjointed thoughts and truly awful [worse than usual] grammar. I need to get this out before I have to step back into the everyday. I needed to share the story before the details become muddled by time. Thursday morning I …
Heather says: So routines are about to happen. Not just routines but morning to bed, no room for error every minute packed until Thursday drop off, routine. I’ll make it, I’m just trying to figure out how. What I’d like from you, is ideas for food suitable for healthy picnic dinners. Why? I have to …
Heather says: Here we are, another week nearly gone, and school, for us anyhow, starts on Monday. I’m more than a little excited. This has been a long summer, and I’m ready for some structure to be added to the chaos that is my work-life dance. (Anyone who dares call it a balance is going …
Like many people, I love chicken marsala. If you’ve gone gluten-free, no worries. You don’t have to leave chicken marsala behind. This version is a simple variation on the classic. All you need is brown rice flour to use in place of wheat. I made this for company the other night, and it turned out …