You had me at veal, Dubai. Back in December 2019 — right before the world collectively lost its mind — our family had an eight-hour layover in Dubai on our way to India. Eight hours is not enough time to form a nuanced opinion about a sand-surrounded megacity, but it is enough time to learn …
You know you live for snowshoe adventures when you still set your alarm for dawn — even after your home tried to become a low-budget horror film at 2 a.m. But we survived. Barely. All of us, every single pet in our cabin, and most of the houseplants. Some of us are sleep-deprived. Some of …
I wish I were in southern India right now—sitting at a chaat house, wearing a colorful kurti that I paid four American dollars for, plastic chair wobbling, elbow-to-elbow with strangers, scooping up yogurty raita that absolutely does not contain pomegranate seeds… and is definitely not high protein. If we were actually in southern India, no …
Here in 2026, we’ve apparently decided that cottage cheese belongs in everything. And honestly? I’m not mad about it. Mainly because, as 2026 dawned, I became obsessed with cottage cheese egg bites But let’s not pretend we haven’t been here before. Remember the 1990s, when every dinner involved low-fat sour cream, low-fat cheese, and meat …
Watching the news lately has been surreal, especially for someone who has spent a lot of time traveling through Minnesota and the Midwest. In my mind, those places have always represented calm, kindness, salt of the earth small town charm and a certain grounded, neighborly decency. God-fearing, friendly Americans. The kind of places where people …