As promised, Day Seven in my Week of Winter Walking takes us to sunnier climates, where my mom and dad are walking the beaches of Sanibel Island, Florida. Most years,…
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Day Six in my Week of Winter Walking and the weather is still…crappy. Tomorrow, I promise you warmer weather with my Day Seven special guest post, which will be…
Earlier this week, I walked into a friend’s house to find a beautiful loaf of bread resting on her kitchen counter. “What is that?” I asked, with the particular tone…
Not too long ago, someone commented on my blog that they liked my posts, especially the older ones. And of course, I thought, “Really?” Because we want to believe in…
A friend recently pointed me to an opinion piece in The New York Times by Madeline Levine about the crisis in American parenting. It’s a great piece, and well worth…
What with my step-daughter starting junior high this week, as well as doing a lot of thinking about step-parenting and parenting in general, I thought I’d re-post this little essay…
It’s the second day of our daughter’s new career at the junior high here in Madison, and for the first time in ages, I was up and moving before it…
My kitchen couch Simple Saturday is the culmination of a list I’ve been compiling in my head of some simple things I’ve done that have made life for me and my…
This Friday is a Kitchen Favorites party over at 33 Shades of Green. Tell us about one of the favorite things in your kitchen and add your link. I thought I…
In college, I took ancient Greek for my required language because I was in love with the professor and a boy. So while other folks were learning practical languages like…
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