by Karen | Mar 8, 2017 | Food and Cooking, From the Kitchen, Wednesday's Recipe for Saturday's Dinner
We are only a few short weeks into the season of Lent. My lack of chocolate is seriously affecting my culinary skills. This recipe below is very simple, until such time that it isn’t. I chose to make these cookies thinking this is easy and I can do this in a short...
by Karen | Mar 3, 2017 | Blog, Food and Cooking, From the Kitchen, Wednesday's Recipe for Saturday's Dinner
No problem. I should have posted this earlier so you’d have time to prepare although there is no magic here. I think I forgot because on Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, my brain was weak from the first few hours of chocolate abstinence. How do I remember not to eat...
by Karen | Mar 17, 2016 | Being Italian, Blog
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all my Irish friends! I have spoken often of my Manhattan roommate, Patricia Cunningham, God rest her soul. We lost her too early in life but her “Irish memories” will stay with me forever. I think about the differences...
by Karen | Feb 9, 2016 | Being Me, Blog, Life Lessons
Last week I was on the phone with a coworker, Candi, discussing a somewhat negative situation we were having with a client. We went back and forth tossing around solutions and agreed on a game plan to correct it. I told her I did not want the client to have such a... by Karen | Mar 17, 2013 | Blog
….and all you good Catholics, like me, know the rest. There are only a few weeks left in Lent. My good deed activity is up. I have helped people in the supermarket; in NYC I have taken pictures of tourists together beside landmarks for them so they could both...