If only life were like pie . . .

. . . and you could control all the variables with precision, get the best recipe for the best outcome and poof! You'd have the perfect life.

I've been making a lot of pies lately and I think it's coming from a place inside me that wants all my work to equal sweet success.

But instead it just means good pie.

So I was worried about my cherry pie being runny. Unlike apple and pecan, you have to cook the ingredients a bit ... and when I poured the filling into the crust, I had a liquidy cherry soup. I thought it would be one of those pies that's so runny that the empty spaces are quickly flooded with pie juice.

But no. I used the recipe below and it was just right. And now it's almost gone!