Sarah Christine Bolton
Health(ier) Eating
I can tell the holidays are over.
It’s not just all the Christmas decorations and candy on sale for 99% off the original price. It’s not the leftover gift bags or crumpled wrapping paper still loitering...
Making Resolutions and Cabbage Soup
New Year’s Eve always comes so quickly, with a breathless, in-your-face reality check that another year is gone. I’m always a bit saddened, but am also glad and ready for a new year, a fresh start.
When...
Stuff Your Face With Sage Stuffing
There have always been three guarantees at Christmas time for me: oranges in my stocking, lots of photographing and filming during present-opening, and sage stuffing for Christmas dinner.
In my family,...
Blended Wines and Other Such Faux Pas
Growing up, I never saw my parents drink wine or even beer. My dad would drink an ice cold non-alcoholic O’Doul’s; occasionally, he let me have a sip but I wasn’t impressed by the taste. Even after...
Your Future Holds: Orange Chicken
I have always been a big fan of Chinese buffets, especially as a kid, when words like “saturated fat,” “sodium,” and “MSG” weren’t even on my radar. There was one place we used to go to...
My Birthday Wish: Cinnamon Rolls
Today is my birthday, which unfortunately doesn’t really mean anything since I still have to go to work and school. I love having a birthday in December; however, since I’ve been in college, my birthday...
Go Green and Be Thankful: Make a Casserole
Like any other family, mine has several holiday traditions: some funny, some touching, and probably many that are quirky.
On Thanksgiving, we all write what we are thankful for on little note cards...
A "Healthy" Slice of Birthday Cake
For some reason, many members of my family were born in the fall. I guess Valentine’s Day was a big deal for many of my relatives! The only complaint I have about the plethora of autumn birthdays is...
The Benefits of Crockpot Cooking
Even though I use and write about my crockpot all the time, it’s easy for me to forget just how cool crockpot cooking is.
I remember my mom’s crockpot. The outside was scarred with burnt food and...
Election Day Potatoes Get My Vote
I was too young to vote in 2000, but I remember watching with great interest as the debacle in Florida kept a president-elect from being named until months after November 4, 2000.
When I moved away...
Be an Adult: Celebrate Halloween
My family didn’t really celebrate Halloween when I was a kid. My mom didn’t like the “evil” association the holiday had with witches, ghosts, and so on. So, instead, we went to our church’s “fall...
Getting to Know Leif Ericson
My siblings and I had what you might call a non-traditional education. We were home-schooled, which isn’t code for weird-bookworm-non-socialized people. On the contrary, we all turned out fairly normal...
Chicken Soup: Stress Reliever
I have officially survived four weeks of grad school. Actually, survived is a generous term. What’s the word for little sleep, lots of caffeine, too much reading, and general stress? I’ll have to do...
Asparagus: The King of Vegetables
When it comes to just about everything in life, my husband and I are total and complete opposites. He’s a born and bred Southern boy; I’m a West Coast hippie chick. He could live on a steady diet of...
Garlic Breath Recommended
Over the summer, I had the chance to guest teach at a friend’s dance school. We had gone to college together, and she graduated before I did, moved back to her home state of Pennsylvania, and took over...
Pizza Is What It's All "Crocked" Up To Be
In middle school, I had a friend who lived in Italy for three years. Her dad was in the military, and he had an opportunity to accept an assignment overseas. For three years, she sent me letters about...