Heather says: Last week it hit me that October passed and I hadn’t even given my annual pre-Turkey Day photo shoot any thought. It simply didn’t happen. Yesterday I drove to my old house to drop off something and I was struck by how autumn had finally arrived while I wasn’t paying attention. There are …
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 …
Michele says: Though I don’t mention it often, I suffer from several chronic illnesses. They limit my life choices, and have caused my career goals to slide from surgeon to virologist to chef. Ultimately, my disabilities chose my career for me; I ended up becoming a foodie housewife. I was incredibly depressed and upset at …
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 …
Heather says: see the end for a note Michele says: Now that September is nigh, relief from the insanity of summer is in sight. Kids go back to school, vacations cease, and life gets back to normal until the seemingly just around the corner winter holiday season. Assuming you’re not Jewish, that is. And if …
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 …