The creative cooking escape of a busy mama in Army Boots.
Hello, friends - and hello, 2020! What a year 2019 was - and what a decade it was! Fortunately, we were able to slow down a little bit in December to reflect on it all and make plans for the coming year. It didn't seem slow at first. We were in a mad rush to [...]
Hello, friends - and happy December! There's no nostalgic "how is it already December?" for me. I'm here shocked that it's only the end of 2019 because it feels like we packed a year's worth of activity into the last month! November brought me to Pennsylvania to speak on a paper I wrote and then [...]
Hello, friends - and happy November! October was an incredibly busy month for work. First there was the big AUSA convention and all the associated engagements, and then I spoke at the MITRE CDO Summit and ATARC's Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Summit on ethics in AI {a subject on which I am by no [...]
Hi guys, and happy Halloween! Fall always seems to come late in NoVA. It's already cold where my folks live in California and it has already snowed on our friends and relatives in Denver. And here in northern Virginia? We're just starting to see the leaves turn. The hardest part is getting out to actually see the [...]
I just turned 40. I keep looking at that number and keep expecting to have feelings about it. The birthdays that end in zeroes are supposed to feel significant. But you know...honestly...I feel just fine and dandy about turning 40. This is one of the ones that is supposed to feel like a milestone. I think I'm [...]
Hello, friends - and happy October! September was a ridiculous month. That's truly the only word I have for it. Somehow in the last month, I spoke on an analytic panel and at the Data Driven Government symposium sponsored by Predictive Analytics World, I met Bobby Flay, I traveled to Google headquarters to spend the [...]
Hello, friends - and happy September! Fall has started SUPER early in the DMV area. Just this past month, we saw lots of trees beginning to turn and shed their leaves, and the temperatures have already dropped into the high 50's at night. I'd be ecstatic over the prospect of a longer fall, but our [...]
This is my kid...but you guys, this totally is my kid. Look at the joy. The pure, undiluted joy on his face as he tears into his smash cake like a ravenous little velociraptor. More than the blonde hair and the blue eyes and the skin that I won't let outside without a thousand layers of baby [...]
Hello, friends - and happy August! We just celebrated a pretty amazing event in our little house - our Baby Bean just turned one! Scott and I survived our first year as parents, and our little man is absolutely thriving! We're hosting family all over the place this week for his birthday and holding a [...]
O Beautiful... For spacious skies... For amber waves of grain... For purple mountains' majesties... Above the fruited plains... America, America... God shed His grace on thee... And crowned thy good with brotherhood... From sea to shining sea. Happy birthday, America.