2011: A Year in Review

Dear readers,

Are you there?  It’s me, Bethany.

I know it has been nearly five months since I sat down to blog, and there really is no excuse for it. These past five months have been some of the most challenging, amazing and rewarding times in my life, but writing that does little to relieve the fact that I did not share these experiences. Although I did contribute to the food blogging world with my posts for Small Kitchen College, I failed to keep up-to-date on my own personal blog. This failure is something I resolve to change in 2012.

The Party Behind the Masks

As a Catholic, every year before the start of Lent I begin to wonder what I should give up during the forty days prior to the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. Last year, I went vegetarian for the Lenten season, and …