I recently found myself sorting through old photographs and discovered a long lost black and white picture of me in the kitchen with my grandmother. I was up on a stool in her humble kitchen with uneven slate floors and I had a smile on my face and a look of anticipation for what was…
Around The Family Table
Meatball Salad Around the Family Table
Around the Family Table with Merrell … When I look at our Kitchen Table, it is so much more than just a piece of furniture in our home. It is certainly not the most expensive piece of furniture that we own. This poor thing has been used and abused. It has scratches and dents on…
Time Around the Family Table Outdoors #vendemmia
It’s that time of the year… a new school year is upon us. I moved my daughter into her sorority house at college. My son in High School started his Senior year and is busy with his academic and football schedule. And my two “not so little guys” started fifth and seventh grade. It’s that…
Around the Family Table
My oldest turns 19 today. How can this be? We’ve heard it our entire lives, to cherish time with our children because it truly goes by too quickly. Like everything else in life, until you go through the motions, you have no idea just how quickly children grow until you look back one day. Alexandra’s…
I Am Thankful For My Old Shoes
I have always said, “Old Friends are like Old Shoes.” We spent Thanksgiving Day with two families that we have been friends with for over 16 years. Like old shoes, they are so comfortable. There is no break in period, they fit just right. As I looked Around the Family Table of 20, it wasn’t…




