about adina

What Really Matters: I love Sour Patch Kids. I’d eat Ranch dressing on my shoe. I don’t do leftovers but I keep them in my fridge anyway. My kids think I like my computer more than I like them. I’m a terrible flyer. I like to move. Keeps me from collecting too much junk. I love coffee culture. Prefer not to split an entree. Why is that even necessary? Whoever asks the person out on the first date should pay. Debate over. 

What People Want to Know: I’m a writer by day and a writer by night. I write things for other people most of the time. Things like newspaper articles and press releases and proposals and speeches and ad copy and web copy and scripts. My articles can be found in places like Ladies' Home Journal, The Huffington Post, Working Mother, 

Today.com and other magazines. I write things for myself the rest of the time. Things like books and screenplays and reality show pitches. Oh, and cooking blogs. I wrote a book called Making It in the City, a girl’s guide to starting life on your own in a ridiculously expensive city you can’t afford. It was published in 2005 when I was young and broke and living in New York City. It’s full of resources for the young and broke. Or not so young and broke. I have a motto. It’s Dream Big. Pay the Rent. I do whatever I can to achieve both. I have two awesome daughters and a big rescue mutt. Life is chaotic. Everything seems to converge right around six pm when everyone is at their worst. 

That’s why I started My Kitchen Chaos. Because in the midst of all of the chaos and family stuff and dreams and paying the rent, dinner still has to be made.

And if it’s not good I won’t eat it.