In honor of what might be my favorite men's World Cup soccer tournament ever (and I've seen many of them starting from 1986!), below are a few "soccer-related" excerpts from my 2016 memoir entitled "this is not a memoir." Congrats to all of this year's supremely talented teams. What fun it has been these past few weeks, watching this magnificent and "biggest single-sport global event" unfold, as it takes place across the three North American host nations of Canada, USA, and M

Thank you to my sister for gifting me with my new favorite game. And it's a movie game to boot! All hail the supremely cute renderings of "Movie Geek." Want to chuckle alongside a cartoonish red rose-lapelled Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" (1972)? Cue "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." Or a tough-nut archer goddess called Katniss Everdeen, played by super-cool Jennifer Lawrence, in the dystopian thriller "The Hunger Games" (2012)? I swear this game was

As I enthusiastically welcomed the New Year, with visions of delectable potato soup prancing in my head, and excitement brimming over for my new holiday gift of "The Easy Potato Soup Cookbook," I was not prepared for the culinary mayhem about to rain down in my kitchen. It was December 31st, and I was embarking on my annual tradition of "cooking something new," which I always like to do on those New Year's Eves in which I am "sans plans." How cozy. How fun, right? Well, u

Starting my personal blog "Color Me..." was a true dream come true. It was December 2015. And while I had an "idea" of what I wanted this blog to be, and a "quasi-plan" of how I wanted to go about achieving this seemingly mammoth endeavor, the real motivation didn't come until I watched that iconic, dreamy, oldie romance film called "An Affair to Remember" (1957). Yes, I kid you not. Call it the pink fizz in my champagne glass that, once imbibed, truly brought my dream to