Driving up the state of California after spending a week in the Southern part of the state made me realize that I truly do miss traveling and seeing different places. It being summer summer, the California landscape is miles and miles of rolling hills of yellow straw-grass in the distance with miles of dusty fields […]

I have decided that writing workshops are a form of necessary modern torture for all serious writers. I am a perfectionist like a lot of writers and I know the things that are wrong with my work. Reading my work aloud in a pressure-cooked room where people have their eyes closed to concentrate on […]

I’m currently at a writing conference in Santa Barbara, staying at a swanky hotel that I can’t quite afford. That said, it’s another week of scraps. I’ve had the luxury of eating instant oatmeal; bagels dipped in hummus; salsa and chips; the obligatory poor man’s food of peanut butter and jelly; tons of water with […]

There are times when you are broke that you simply have to make do with the leftovers in your fridge. The scraps that I graced myself with included but were not limited to: delivery pizza and yogurt that was nearing the expiration date. I put trail mix in the yogurt to make it more […]

Episode one of The Adventures of Grapefruitgirl brings you fine viewers the recipe for chicken salad wraps.
Chicken salad wraps are actually quite easy to make. The most time consuming part of the process is cooking the chicken. I picked up some chicken from my local grocery store. Granted I would like to have […]