My mom’s birthday was on Inauguration Day. Between the blizzard and my family’s busy schedules, the Official Celebration will finally happen later today. While we kids ...
My first-ever order from Penzeys. I’m aquiver with excitement. There were so many items I was tempted to buy, but I restrained myself for my inaugural ...
I brought home a pile of freelance work to do today, and it took longer than I expected to finish it. When I finally turned off ...
4:30 this morning, I wake to find S sitting on the edge of the bed, facing away from me.
-Is everything OK?
-His stomach hurts, he says.
I murmur ...
If I ever have a baby, and I hope I will soon, somebody please buy this for him/her! (In case you can’t read it, it says ...
Yesterday S and I got a little stir-crazy, what with the blizzard and all. We piled on our snow gear and trekked over to Bedford Avenue, the ...
Ahh, the humble bean. What ingredient is more disparaged, yet more versatile? Sure, you might get a little, umm, musical after, but isn’t it ...
Don’t know ‘bout you, but here in lovely Brooklyn we’re snowed in. It started around 11:30 this morning and it’s been quietly blanketing us all day—they ...
I am blue,
stir-crazy against forbidding cold.
Dinner time approaches. No plan has been
made.
Humble split peas rattle, jarred.
Onion, carrot, celery, parsnip. Bacon.
Twenty minutes later bubbling, thickening.
Time passes, deep ...
Over the last few years I’ve developed several oddball allergies: Dust mites. Benzoyl peroxide. Gold (yes, gold, not nickel. My dermatologist was shocked—I’m the ...