It was always easy for me to hone in on my preferred meal on the breakfast menu. Anything that didn’t include syrup, jam or sugar was a no go. Sweet over savory every day of the week. Hence my surprise when I ditched my strawberry filled crepes and french toast soaked in syrup and replaced... More

The Elephant in the [Bath]Room It was the last item on the repair list – the upstairs bathtub wasn’t draining properly. This Colonial Heights treasure had found its new owner, but we had to get this tub fixed! On their first visit, the plumber found that it wasn’t the 1927 original drain that was the... More

Did anyone else notice things being “off” these past couple weeks? If you haven’t heard, Mercury is in retrograde. Now this isn’t just mumbo-jumbo stuff, folks. Ask around, my bet is your circle of people probably noticed it, too. So what IS Mercury retrograde, really? Three or four times a year, Mercury passes the earth... More