Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I can't imagine ever growing tired of waking up to the smell of roasting turkey and linen napkins being pressed. The cranberry sauce with diced orange peel, the mashed potatoes with gravy made rich by drippings and the lemon meringue pie that marked the course between turkey dinner … Continue reading Thanks(for)giving
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Cooking w/Q
If ever there should be a new cooking show on PBS, it should definitely be Cooking w/Q. Trust me, this child could rival Julia and Jacques when it comes to repartee. As we prepared Sausage-Apple-Mushroom Stuffing for tomorrow's mock-Thanksgiving, he offered all sorts of bon mots - including the following gem: cooking is "really boring, … Continue reading Cooking w/Q
On being not cool…
3rd Row Friday morning I got a Facebook message from a fellow Laker-girl making a couple of tickets to the DMB show available to me. Day of the show miracle, I call that. I was so excited to get home and surprise Griffin with the unexpected news. History: after relying upon someone else to get … Continue reading On being not cool…
5 Things I hadn’t considered when I decided to have children…
I feel like I'm in a pretty good place with my family. While it would have been interesting to experience parenting a daughter, I'm more than okay with the fact that I have 3 healthy, wanted boys. There are some things, however, that I hadn't anticipated about being a parent. Things like:They would be such … Continue reading 5 Things I hadn’t considered when I decided to have children…
Making Tracks to Wellfleet
We're off today for our annual visit to Cape Cod, so postings for the next two weeks will be sparse, if not nonexistent. We've visited the Cape every summer since 1999 and it is a tradition we all look forward to enjoying each year. Our first few years, we stayed in the Harwichport or … Continue reading Making Tracks to Wellfleet
Father’s Day for Bastards
When I was a kid, Father's Day was sort of an awkward holiday. There was no male figure in my house to receive the crafts and projects created in elementary school, as gifts to honor Dad. I would try to explain to my teacher that I didn't have a father, but this was a long … Continue reading Father’s Day for Bastards
Sheila
Today marks 73 years since my mother-in-law, Sheila, was born. Even though we lost her more than two years ago, it just wouldn't be right to not honor her on this day. There aren't many days that pass without my thinking of her, or our family not sharing a memory of when she was still … Continue reading Sheila
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