A couple of years ago, my new Blackberry Storm was one of the best smartphones on the market. (Obviously this was pre-iPhone.) Its cool features and Verizon’s buy-one-get-one-free deal hooked my husband and me into buying a pair. I’ve rued…
I miss my stacks. Nicely, neatly organized stacks of canned goods, chocolate chips, cake mixes, napkins and paper towels, cereal, gravy mixes, Crisco—if it kept well on a shelf, I had six or seven. For 26 years (most of my…
1. Go to a stranger’s house.2. Seat the child in a chair next to you and seat the strangers around you.3. Turn off the lights and turn on a movie with the same rating as the one you’re planning to…
I want to make a tall, snow-white coconut cake, with a light, fluffy frosting that’s covered in big, fat coconut flakes. I saw it on the cover of Family Circle, and it looked irresistible. I also want to bake a…
When four of us were all living in the same house, I made chicken pot pie from scratch. Everything about it was homemade, including the gravy and the pie crust. The only thing that would’ve been more authentic would be…
This isn’t a cooking blog, which you already know if you’ve read a few of my posts. I don’t fancy myself much of a cook, although I love to bake. Occasionally I’ll make something fun that I feel like sharing,…
I took a walk in our field the other day and had a hard time not falling into a hole. Or rather, 285 holes. Our 15 verdant, productive acres of alfalfa have been invaded by ground squirrels who have dug…
We used to have a dog who was outdoors all the time, feared nothing, played hard, and slept happily in the garage. We now have a dog – the same dog – who scratches and whines to be indoors, who…
Mother’s Day doesn’t seem like a holiday for me. It’s all about MY mother (as if, after 25 years of motherhood, I don’t quite have the “mother” identity yet). She is the most special woman in my life, the one…
Did you ever talk someone into doing something and then feel really stupid when it backfired on you? Yesterday I decided Scott and I needed to walk half a mile to our mailbox and back. We’ve done this a few…
