A few weeks ago, I invited some girlfriends to come over for Saturday breakfast. I’ve been so wrapped up lately in work, and traveling for work, and playing with Baby…

For six years I’ve been a devotee of the High-Intensity Interval Training classes at FLEXcity Fitness. Jenny Quinn and Trista Parisian are the owners and founders of Flex and constantly…

I have a lot of history with coffee cake. Growing up, my mom and her girlfriends would sit around the dining room table to gossip and eat an Entenmann’s coffee…

For 6.5 years, I have been writing a monthly restaurant review. It’s for a weekly local newspaper called Lansing City Pulse, and the feature is called “He Ate/She Ate.” Every…

Several years ago, Peter Spadafore and I got to know each other through our political extracurricular. Four years ago we rekindled our friendship when I was appointed to fill a…

Self care. It’s a trendy phrase nowadays, but I boil it down to this- what do I do to make sure that I’m a fully-functioning mom, wife, attorney, friend, human…

Baby Eddie was born smack-dab in the middle of December in 2017, which was the beginning of an absolutely brutal winter. By nature, I’m not an alarmist, and I never…

Baby Eddie is a mover and a shaker. Never content to sit still, he loves to crawl and roll around, throwing socks and empty water bottles from one end of…

I love a slow cooker. There is nothing better than getting home at the end of a busy work day and knowing that dinner is ready for you- all you…