According to the CDC, about 50 million people live with chronic pain. 50 million people wake up every day in pain. Some trudge through their work days while others are on disability. It can be invisible obstacle that someone is struggling with and somehow, on the outside they look fine. Others, their pain shows in…
A whole year!!!! I made this recipe a year ago and then I got sick, then strawberry season ended, and I just held onto it. So here, a year later, is my recipe for strawberry matcha parfaits using locally grown strawberries from Mick Farms and matcha from The Trading Post Cafe. If you read a…
I am a cinnamon roll snob. This shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone considering I refuse to eat the cinnamon rolls that come in a can and you pop them in the oven to bake them. Actually, a large part of my life, I assumed I didn’t like cinnamon rolls despite having an…
Growing up I only remember eating banana pudding for Easter or if someone had passed away. My grandma is the only person I know that makes it and let’s be for real, if I am asking that sweet lady to cook for me, banana pudding isn’t what I am asking for. After making it this…
***Update as of January 2026 this restaurant is closed..Twelve hours later, we arrived in Gatlinburg to a sea of people and the overwhelming smell of weed. It has been 4 years since I was in Tennessee, Gatlinburg specifically, and it no longer feels home. To be fair, it was never home. The Smoky Mountains has…
For someone who doesn’t watch a lot of TV or movies, I seem to have a lot of stories that center around “I saw this in an anime.” Curry is no different. Several years ago when I apparently spent a lot of time binging anime, I fell in love with the idea of curry. I…
I am a sucker for reading books that thoroughly transport me to their world. I also find myself doing everything possible to live in books when I read them. I adore flagging pages that describe foods I can cook later or finding books based on places I am going to visit. Before my trip to…
Several years ago I started creating bucket lists for different parts of the year. Sometimes I do smaller ones for the month while other years I do seasonal ones. If I am being totally honest, it is usually Spring and Summer then October, November, December, and January each get their own individual bucket lists because…
The train sounds are what I miss the most. As someone who adores slice of life anime, hearing those train sounds in real life and having them sound exactly like the anime was a surreal experience. I left Japan with a deeper love of anime due to their attention to detail for the small things…
So, I thought this posted back in April, and yet I found it in my drafts. Enjoy a post that is two months late. With my birthday approaching yet again, I knew I had to go search through the archives of my photos to find these Earl Grey cupcakes with lavender frosting. These are in…