My son has wanted to see The Water Horse since it first advertised over the summer. It came out on Christmas and we waited a few days before heading over to the theater. The story is based on a novel by Dick King-Smithand about the longtime tale of the Loch Ness Monster.
I assumed the majority [...]

This week in the spirit of the hurried holidays, the reviewers of Props and Pans will be posting our favorite reviews of 2007. We’ll be back in 2008 with lots of opinions.

I just wrote a post called Specialized Quitters, on my own blog, about how maddening it is to watch people buy excessive equipment and [...]

This week in the spirit of the hurried holidays, the reviewers of Props and Pans will be posting our favorite reviews of 2007. We’ll be back in 2008 with lots of opinions.

At Safeway a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a new household addiction - Organic Yellow Corn Tostitos from Frito Lay.
These delicious little wonders [...]

This week in the spirit of the hurried holidays, the reviewers of Props and Pans will be posting our favorite reviews of 2007. We’ll be back in 2008 with lots of opinions.

iConcertCal is a personalized concert calendar built for iTunes. It’s a free plug-in that works with iTunes to give you the concert schedule of [...]

This week in the spirit of the hurried holidays, the reviewers of Props and Pans will be posting our favorite reviews of 2007. We’ll be back in 2008 with lots of opinions.

While wandering through the wilds of the Walmart Supercenter in Waukegan two weeks ago, I ran into a product in the cosmetics section that [...]

This week in the spirit of the hurried holidays, the reviewers of Props and Pans will be posting our favorite reviews of 2007. We’ll be back in 2008 with lots of opinions.

I was recently offered an opportunity to sample some environmentally friendly cleaners and being the closet greenie that I am, I was more than [...]

This week in the spirit of the hurried holidays, the reviewers of Props and Pans will be posting our favorite reviews of 2007. We’ll be back in 2008 with lots of opinions.

Do you love free samples? I do. I’m the person who scours Sam’s Club on Saturday mornings and can make a meal out of [...]

This week in the spirit of the hurried holidays, the reviewers of Props and Pans will be posting our favorite reviews of 2007. We’ll be back in 2008 with lots of opinions.

So begins Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth, which is currently our favorite children’s book. It tells the story of Stillwater, a giant [...]

As I was driving home from a trip about a month ago, I tuned into a station interviewing Wendell Jamieson, a city editor for The New York Times. He also authored the book, Fathers Know Less Or: “Can I Cook My Sister?”
I admit the title really caught my attention because it sounded so fun [...]

My husband says to me while in the crowded mall food court,”Want a Yule Flip Blizzard?” To which I say, “No.” And then he and my son explain to me that it’s a Blizzard, that tastiest of shake/ice-cream hybrids, with peppermint chips and chocolate in it.
I wasn’t convinced yet, because I was picturing big hunks [...]