 Is there anything worse than a compliment that slaps you in the face? When someone degrades you by couching it in terms of “respect?” This comment from a Momversation by Maggie Mason did that for me: “I don’t think I would make a very nice stay at home mom. I am totally in awe of the women who can sit [...] I never ask Zac to pick up cilantro from the grocery store without getting ridiculed. “Cil-AAAAA-ntro? What’s that? I don’t think Safeway has that….. I know they have Cil-Ohn-tro, but I don’t know about Cil-AAAA-ntro.” Either way you say it- the nasal way or the snooty way – this herb is an inspiring ingredient. I love how [...]  “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, When I moved into my first apartment Moscow I put some little thyme plants on my windowsill in the kitchen to grow. Mostly, I just like the way [...]  My lovely little mint plant Vietnamese Chicken Salad I have discovered that fresh herbs really do taste much better than the dried and so I planted a very small herb garden just outside the kitchen door. There is oregano which I clipped off to season some spaghetti sauce, chives and rosemary that I used to season some grilled salmon. Then there [...]  “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts,” said Ophelia to her brother Laertes. “There’s fennel for you, and columbines. There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me; we may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with [...] Lancaster, home of many many good things, cream filled doughnuts and whoopie pies being a few. Every time I’ve visited Fred and Cindy Barley’s farmhouse in Lancaster County I feel like I’ve stepped into a Martha Stewart magazine. The peace and loveliness is only amplified by the fact that Erin, Tim, Yvette, Freyja [...] Every once in a while a book or article comes out that makes you re-consider your entire way of thinking on a particular issue. Books like Blink by Malcolm Gladwell or Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman have done that to me. I’m not talking about a persuasive piece of writing that suddenly changes your mind on a previously well-thought out position you held– I am talking [...] The Story of Little Black Sambo Little Black Sambo While I love a good story, I think to be a great story the pictures need to compliment the writing and this book is beautiful. The colors are vivid and luminous. Perfect for the sun drenched backdrop of India. Beowulf by James Rumford The [...] I should probably be more about my hair but I sorta just don’t care. I tried to for awhile. I went to a salon where they charged good money to cut my hair. Now I’ve settled on the walk-in places because when my hair needs cut, it needs cut now, not next week when they can [...]  #gallery-1 { Learning to take a good jumper shot takes a few tries but once you’ve got the hang of it you can pretty much take jumpers anywhere we were constantly scouting out things to leap off of no matter where we went sometimes you would get [...] Poor Taite! I taught all her sisters to bake and here she is twelve years old and I have never taught her a thing, well, except to make a lettuce salad. So a few weeks ago I let her loose in the kitchen with a cookie recipe and she has since become a [...]
Three weeks ago, Taite, Matthias, Jarrett and I were in the kitchen when Taite swore she saw a little mouse scuttle under the dishwasher. Jarrett was suspicious of Taite’s ability to discern a mouse in the kitchen. An hour later I am on top of the kitchen counter calling Andrew at work to tell him a [...] Here it is! And if you didn’t get enough! And the Final! I’m sure that half the world has already seen these guys but I was so enthralled with them. After I heard that Susan Boyle lost to the dance group Diversity, I hopped on YouTube to check them out. I was totally sold. They have the most [...] I’m glad I started out in a studio apartment with a 6 month old baby. I’m glad she slept in the dining room of our one bedroom apartment until she was a year. I’m glad I had to go 5 flights of stairs to get to the laundry room only to find someone was using all [...] In many places it is said that you know Spring is here when you see the first robin. For Washingtonians, Spring has arrived when you see the first sear-sucker suit, sun hat, or man sporting salmon-colored pants. All that and more comes out at Gold Cup– the horse race that takes place in The Plains, VA [...] |
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