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Beach Weekend Nostalgia
There is something about going to a place you visited in your youth that stirs up all kinds of memories. Looking for “ghost crabs” on the beach and night with flashlights, flirting with boys at the...
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Fresh Watermelon Martinis
Want to know something weird? I didn’t like watermelon until a couple of years ago. I liked watermelon flavored Jolly Ranchers as a child but the real deal? I couldn’t be convinced to take more than...
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Retro Glam: An eShakti Review
I have always been drawn to vintage and retro inspired clothing-cigar box purses, high waisted-shorts, pencil skirts, and flared denim are just a few of my favorites! There is something so feminine...
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Simple Duck Confit
Hello long lost friends and readers! I mentioned in this post that one of my goals for July was to prepare a duck dish. Well, July came and went, but I have duck for you nonetheless! My first encounter...
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Competition Dining: Fire in the City!
Shortly after creating The Lady Olive, I joined Twitter and followed a bunch of food and fashion bloggers, chefs, celebrities, musicians, and the few friends I have that actually tweet. I think it was...
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Curry Spiced Roasted Cauliflower and Garlic Soup
Everyone knows that summer is my favorite season of them all. Warm rays of sunshine beaming on your back, less clothing (I mean who really likes to wear tights? They are a modern day torture device),...
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Season of Love
Thanksgiving is almost here and I have been more pensive than usual. It has been a year of highs and lows and perhaps it is the lows that have evoked this introspection. In previous years, I have...
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Blame it on the baby
These poor babies- we wait on them for the better part of 10 months to enter the world and then we blame them for all of our shortcomings. Or maybe that’s just me. My writing has gotten rustier than a...
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Motherhood: Rated R
John Paul jokes that I thought having a baby meant carting an American Girl Doll around town like a Toy Pomeranian. This “doll” would be sleeping through the night by the ripe age of 6 weeks old,...
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Surviving the first trimester
Getting out of the first trimester is something like graduating from high school. It seems to take FOREVER, your skin breaks out, you’re anxious but excited, and much like when you get that college...
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