Ridiculous amounts of fun: A mother-daughter Disneyland adventure, in pictures
With T-30 hours until Disneyland, I was on the phone with Disney Dining to make reservations for a “Character Breakfast” where you …
Happy birthday Brenda Lynn!
When I think of how mean I was to my little sister growing up, I’m surprised she likes me today. Like when …
Happy Christmas!
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without pugs, right? (Two of four family pugs pictured.) Hope you’re all having a beautiful weekend. Happy Christmas …
Thursday 13: A delightful December snapshot
It’s Christmas eve eve eve and I keep wondering what happened to December. Or 2011 for that matter. With wrapping yet to …
North Highlands “Wild One” album debut!
This just in… the new North Highlands album is out!! Check out (and download!) “Wild One” right this very minute by clicking …
A Grateful Heart: Celebrating another big-haired sister
Did you know they have a Pope-themed room at our local Buca di Beppo? Emily sat in the chair of honor, naturally, …
Phonetics failure: A pho faux pas!
After recently writing a post about pho (see here), I excitedly told my little sister Emily that she’d have to take me …
Easter at 36,000 feet
Peep sushi from Mikuni in Sacramento! Another day, another plane (or three), and I find myself in the Windy City. On Easter. …
Daily Musing: Pug overload
It started innocently enough. A puppy seems innocent, right? (Well, cute at any rate.) One day my sister Emily introduces a pug …
The Malvinis take Manhattan (and parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx, too)
I lead a charmed life, one filled with riveting academic articles to read like “Chemosensory Cues to Conspecific Emotional Stress Activate Amygdala …