Today is my first Mother’s Day, but since my two-month-old didn’t make me breakfast in bed, I baked myself some scones and thought back on the showers that my friends threw me when he was just a baby bump. A shower, I found, is kind of like a wedding: You’re the star. Or rather, your […]

Our holiday getaway this year involved a roadtrip from California to Colorado by way of Utah. After spending a night in Zion Lodge (decent motel accommodations, mediocre food, stunning location in Zion National Park), we stopped for breakfast a couple hours later at Arshel’s Cafe in Beaver, UT, said to be well-known for its pies.

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After lunch at Jitlada, I hit Scoops, an eclectic ice-cream place around the corner where owner Tai Kim made no secret of where he stood on the presidential election. I enjoyed reading the suggestion board before settling on a cup of the bestselling brown bread ice cream, which sounds like an odd flavor (ok, not […]