by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 6, 2012 | for Fun, Yea Big
Monica (14): Mom, who's Eddy Murphy and Freddie Mac?
by Guest Author | Feb 4, 2012 | for Fun
Guest post written by Deborah Cook I love to always have a plethora of holiday cookies in our home for whenever we just want some cookies or when we have a guest in our home to offer to them. Maybe it's just the inner hostess in me to do that. But that also means that...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 28, 2012 | for Fun, for Home, for Money
When we moved to Eagle Mountain, we thought we were going to do the farm thing. Not a full-fledged, up before dawn, milking the cows kind of farm, just a little gentleman's ranchette. With a couple of horses, a goat or two, maybe a few mini-cows (OK, so maybe a little...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 23, 2012 | for Fun, for Home
If you are a fellow American, “letting a flat” might sound like gibberish. Or needing replacement tires. But it's very simple. In British parlance letting is renting and a flat is an apartment. When we lived in England in 1983, we let a flat in a row of...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 22, 2012 | for Fun
When I was 19, my dad took a sabbatical form his professorial duties and he and my mother headed to Europe. The final destination was to be a flat in Leeds, England, but before that would be a whirlwind tour of Germany (where they would pick up a VW Jetta (with...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 20, 2012 | for Fun, for Home
I'm totally into interior decoration. But it's not what you think. In the context of my life, being “into” home decorating it more like wishing I were into it and realizing I'm clueless. I know what I like when I see it, but I have no idea how to recreate...
