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As simple as making a fruit plate may seem, I kind of drew a blank recently when I was assigned to bring one for a potluck.
I found some share-worthy fruit tray tips. If you’re also out of practice pulling together party food, read on!
We humans are weirdly resilient. A few years ago, I wrote (through tears), “Life can be such an off-balance mix of highs and lows, beautiful moments and heartbreaking ones all scrambled together.” It remains true at the close of this tumultuous, challenging, disorienting – and, yes, often heartbreaking – year. There are points of light, even …
While I’ve never spent more than a few days at a time in San Diego, it’s been part of some very memorable trips. We camped at a State Park just outside of town on the final night of our trip down the coast in 2012. Back when Phillip worked for an airline, we flew in …
The Happenings List is made up of things I would do if I could do everything and be everywhere. This edition includes September and October events in Italy, Spain, the UK, and the U.S. – specifically, Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington (state), and Washington D.C. If you are able to go to …
The Happenings List Our curated list of upcoming festivals, workshops, shows, and other goings-on for makers and explorers – June through August 2017 (and beyond)! If you go to something from one of our Happenings Lists, please tell us all about it! Read on for events in Italy, Germany, the UK, and the U.S.: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, …
Updated last: February 23, 2021 (to reflect permanent closures and changes, not temporary measures due to COVID-19). Originally published May 30, 2016. Let’s say you’re in town for a thing at the Phoenix Convention Center. You have a spare hour here and there. Maybe a spare afternoon. And then you have a flight to catch. …
We’re not Seattle, obviously. But Phoenix does have its hardcore coffee devotees. We also have an increasing number of independent shops run by people who care about where their coffee comes from, the way it’s brewed, and who even roast the beans themselves to make sure they meet their standards. 1. The original Cartel Coffee Lab …
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One of the things San Francisco’s Mission District is famous for is street art. There are portraits painted on shop entryways, sketches on sidewalks, and whole alleyways covered in giant murals, like public open-air museums. Some murals have social messages, some are funny, some are abstract. They’re all fascinating. I visited the mural-covered Balmy Alley in …
The idea of collecting trip mementos in paper bags has stuck with me since I saw it in Anna Corba’s Vintage Paper Crafts awhile ago, and I wanted to give it a try during our Colorado trip this summer. Last year when we went on our Epic California Road Trip, we picked up a postcard for each day …
Camping in China is not a thing. At least, that’s what I heard from my friend Jingjing when she was explaining why she and her husband, Zhipei, felt their only chance to ever go would be while they’re here in the U.S., before he finishes his degree and they return to their home country. While …