the latest posts tagged ‘families’
just shut it
People would get along a lot better if everyone kept stuff to themselves. You know, like it was when there was a stringent social code of what you could and shouldn’t talk about, before it became all the rage to share. Let’s start with: I have issues and so do you. There are things…
hey, i know! let’s build a fort!
I place the 14th item on the express checkstand conveyor and wait for the queue to move before pushing my cart any farther. My iPhone chirps, making me flinch and my skin go cold, but it’s just Stacie with a new time for yoga tomorrow, so I text back “7:30, see you then.” The…
Gin: It’s What’s for Dinner
I usually write about things that make me happy, so you’re probably expecting this to be about my handsome husband or music or maybe lobster and Jarlsberg potato galettes. Instead I’m serving up sadness that will drop you to your knees and the smell of bile. Sound like fun? Good. Pull up a barstool and…
Vegetables for Kids 101
I love vegetables because I’ve been eating them since I can remember putting food in my mouth. My daughter loves vegetables because I fed them to her as soon as she could chew. Her daughter loves… You get it, I know. But if you didn’t start when your kids were so young that they…
Boysenberry Napalm
I considered writing a foodie piece on how to make a pie. I can, you know, make a perfectly respectable pie. Dozens of pies have left my ovens over the course of this long life, carrying the smell of warm apples or pumpkin or pecan and caramel down hallways like you see in cartoons,…