The bribery—excuse me, encouragement via promise of reward—continues anew. Three weeks after our initial breakthrough, when Harry ate a new vegetable every day for fourteen ...
Harry likes sugar snap peas. Like, really likes them. Ate one after another last night at dinner, and demolished the supply I sent in his lunchbox today.
I just had to ...
It’s true.
Harry ate vegetables.
For fourteen straight days.
Do you understand how momentous this is? The kid’s been so challenging to feed for so long, I actually got ...
Harry loves the color green. Actually, “love” might be too gentle a word; “obsessed” is probably a better choice. From the very first time he was asked ...
I’m not gonna lie: These Chocolate Whole Wheat Sandwich Cookies with Raspberry Filling are a production. It took me the better part of an afternoon to ...
I went for a walk today. This is news, somewhat, since lately it feels like I hardly ever leave our apartment. Ahh, the glamorous life of a writer…
Anyhoosie. I went ...

Four-year-olds, it seems, aren’t much more interested in precision than two-year-olds.
I don’t think they minded.


An essay I wrote about my adorable child and his extremely sophisticated palate (so sophisticated that he can tell just by looking whether or not he’ll like something, and ...
This here is one vehicle-loving kid. Note that he’s holding trains while wearing a fire truck, and behind him are a crane, a dump ...



By 6PM, all that remained were five sucking candies and a packet of Looney Tunes gummies.