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Last Friday night my Aunt told me that she was taking us to a place for dinner that I would really love.  It was called Southern Season.  I had never heard of it before, but you know I am always up for eating out. A whole wall of hot sauces!  Turns out Southern Season is a foodies dream.  Cooking school, housewares, wine, cheese, bakery –...

What a whirlwind weekend!  While the reason I was going was bittersweet, it was so nice to see family, some of whom I haven’t seen in years.  Normally I am really nervous to fly.  All the sounds, etc.  But I told myself I had a better chance of getting hit by a car than I did dying in a plane crash, and that seemed to...

I will be taking a blog break until Tuesday.  My dear cousin Pam lost her battle with cancer on January 2.  A mere 30 days after Tony died.  She was an amazing woman, and way to young to leave this earth at the young age of 56. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000 and enjoyed eight years of remission before in 2008,...

Since Tony passed away we’ve only used the living room in the front of the house a few times.  I don’t know what it is, but we usually hang out in the back of the house – in the kitchen and in the back family room.  It’s cozier I guess?  We did use the living room on NYE when we watched a movie when we...

You’d think I’d get used to Chicago winters, but I never do.  The cold air smacks me in the face when I open my back door and I think what Tony would be saying right about now “why the fuck do we live here?!” That’s how cold it was when I left the house yesterday morning.  By 12:30 when I left for the gym it...

I had a good weekend.  I think it was the first weekend since Tony passed away that I wasn’t always on the verge of breaking down into tears.  What helped me?  I watched a documentary called Out of the Clear Blue Sky on Netflix.   It was the story of 9/11 from the perspective of Cantor Fitzgerald – whose company lost almost 700 employees that day. ...

I know with the new year, we start thinking about being healthier, and while I don’t have any concrete goals, you all know I am all about recipes and cooking in general.  I was looking through my Pinterest Page and some other blogs where I have actually written down recipes I’ve wanted to try, but still haven’t yet.  So I thought I’d put them in...

Usually by now I would have a game plan for the year.  All the things I want to accomplish in the coming year, how much weight I want to lose.  Blah blah blah.  I don’t have a single resolution for this year other than to make each day count. I remember back in October, or maybe even early November.  It was a Friday night.  Tony...

During the time when Tony’s family was here after he passed away, I received a box of cheese from Cabot.  The tomato basil was a big hit, but I put the habanero one in my lunch meat drawer because I knew that it was going to be all mine.  When I was cleaning out the fridge over the weekend, I found it and knew it...

So of course since Hannah and Jacob moved in with me, they had to quit their jobs in the city.  You see, I live in the “sticks.”   Like 55 miles NW of the city of Chicago.  When I lived in Oak Park, Chicago was in my backyard – now?  Not so much! So the restaurant Hannah and I wanted to go to on Saturday night...