by Francie | Apr 18, 2019 | chocolate, Holiday
I love Easter. I love the colorful candy. I love the cute baskets. I love egg hunts and treasure hunts. Most of all, I love the chocolate Easter Bunny that lords over the entire basket. When my kids were little, they cracked open the plastic seal on their Peter...
by Francie | Mar 24, 2016 | chocolate, Holiday
And that’s the way it was fourteen years ago. A two-year-old was in a face-off with the Easter Bunny, unsure of this tall furry creature in the park. Dozens of chubby-legged preschoolers dragged their brimming baskets from egg to egg, delighting in every...
by Francie | Feb 13, 2015 | chocolate, Family, Holiday
I love my Valentine. I love the holiday to celebrate my Valentine. I love, love. I’m a bit of a minority I think. Chatting with friends over the last couple of days made me realize a lot of people out there don’t like the holiday as it seems too...
by Francie | Oct 2, 2013 | chocolate, Fashion, Food, Travel
I wish I could eat chocolate every day, a lot of it. I wish I could wear workout clothes every day of every month. I wish I could sit on my computer and write and write and write. Or like the song says, “I don’t wanna work. I just wanna bang on these drums all...
by Francie | Sep 16, 2012 | chocolate, Tech Rants
Surprise! Shoezle moved. I had hoped to make a really formal announcement with ribbon cutting and all, but plans were foiled. My new site is going rogue. God I hate technology. During the move, a gift was sent to all of you: shoezle anthology. I didn’t...
by Francie | Apr 12, 2012 | chocolate, Fashion, Fitness
Beauty is…your perfect (fill in the blank.) And by perfect, I mean thinner and thinner and thinner anything and everything. And now, in the thick of the “new thirties” decade, I add smoother, smoother, and smoother plus tighter, tighter and tighter. All skin and...