Memorial Day arrives on May 25, which is also, somehow, National Wine Day. The universe has gifted us a long weekend and a wine holiday in the same 72 hours. I consider this a personal message. (Who am I to argue with the universe?)

Before I get to the wine, I want to pause on Memorial Day itself. It’s a solemn holiday at its heart, a day of remembering people who gave something we’ll never be able to give back. That matters. If you know a Gold Star family, call them. If you know a veteran,...

Memorial Day weekend is almost here, which means summer reading season is officially about to kick off. (May is also Get Caught Reading Month, by the way, so consider yourselves warned. I’m watching you in public, waiting to catch you in the act.) If you’re anything like me, you’ve already started triaging your TBR for beach season.

Here’s the thing about a true beach read. You can spot one from forty feet away. The cover is usually pastel, or cerulean, or that specific shade of coral that...

National Chocolate Chip Day is May 15, which might be the most important holiday of the entire month, depending on your priorities. (Mine are: book, blanket, snack. Everything else is negotiable.)

Here’s something I learned that delighted me. The chocolate chip cookie was an accident. In 1938, Ruth Wakefield ran the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. She was making a batch of chocolate cookies and didn’t have time to melt the baker’s chocolate, so she chopped up a Nestle bar and tossed...