The favorite Christmas movie in our house this year is “Elf”. (I’m also partial to “Love Actually”, but that one’s obviously not for family consumption.) Maybe it’s just because I’ve seen it so many times, or because I was still feeling flu-ish upon the first viewing of this holiday season, but I’m struck suddenly this […]

The other night at the office holiday party, I gulped two glasses of sangria (seriously the best sangria I’ve ever had, and that includes La Grande Orange in Phoenix, which is saying something — I’ll post the recipe if I can wrest it out of the host) and for about 10 minutes, I was pleasantly […]