• A Naturally Spooky Halloween Dinner

    A Naturally Spooky Halloween Dinner

    Black rice with roasted orange squash, smoky sausage, sweet onion and kale, finished with toasted pumpkin seeds. Halloween food does not have to be covered in artificial colors or shaped like something gruesome. Sometimes seasonal ingredients already give us exactly the colors we need. Halloween Themed Dinner Party…

  • How to Avoid Holiday Debt Without Losing the Joy of Christmas

    How to Avoid Holiday Debt Without Losing the Joy of Christmas

    Christmas is supposed to be a season of generosity, celebration, and spending time with the people we care about. Unfortunately, it can also become a season of overspending. Gifts, travel, food, decorations, charitable giving, school activities, work parties, and all those “little extras” can add up surprisingly quickly.…

  • Halloween Traditions to Bring Back

    Halloween Traditions to Bring Back

    A little old fashioned magic – Apples and popcorn, handmade decorations, strange fortunes, ghost stories, and a few traditions with real shadows in them. Long before Halloween became an enormous retail season, people made much of the evening themselves. They cut paper cats and witches, carved lanterns, served…

  • Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner with Bacon, Roasted Vegetables, and Sourdough Croutons

    Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner with Bacon, Roasted Vegetables, and Sourdough Croutons

    This sheet pan chicken with bacon, roasted vegetables, and sourdough croutons is the kind of cozy dinner that feels just right as the weather begins to cool. Boneless chicken thighs roast alongside broccoli, cauliflower, red onion, and pieces of bacon. Torn sourdough is added partway through so it…

  • Gluten-Free Crackers You Can Make at Home

    Simple Gluten-Free Crackers You Can Make at Home

    Sometimes you just want a cracker. Not a giant bag of chips. Not a fancy appetizer. Not a complicated health-food situation. Just something crisp, salty, snackable, and good with whatever you feel like putting on top of it. The tricky part is that gluten-free crackers can be expensive,…

  • What Happens If My Business Expenses Are More Than My Self-Employment Income?

    You started a business, earned some money, and kept track of your expenses. Then you looked at the numbers and discovered something unsettling: Your business expenses were higher than your business income. Now what? First, don’t panic. This does not automatically mean you did something wrong. New businesses…