One of the Walls of the FDR Monument There is absolutely no part of me that wants to talk about the election. In fact, I wanted to post something silly and distracting this week because, good gravy, do we need to laugh right now or what? We ARE allowed to laugh in times like these. It is so good for the soul. However, if you are person, like me, who is genuinely ... Read More
Mom Snacks Make Me Very Sad
One sign that you might be getting older is that you have come to know about way too many types of grains. When you are young, the only grains that you are expected to know about are wheat and rice. Two grains and you feel like a genius! Somehow, by the time you are forty, you find that little known grains with names fit for evil science fiction characters are actually ... Read More
A Letter to My Daughter: How to Find Your One
I would not call my life or my marriage glamorous. On a typical weekday, my husband and I roll out of bed still tired and get immediately to the mundane work of making life happen. There are lunches to be made and dogs to be fed and walked. There is a constant barrage of laundry....so...much....laundry. There are groceries to be bought, cars to be ... Read More
Spa Day – The Wonderful Weirdness of Banya
October kicks my cheese. It truly does. I don't exactly know what it is about this time of year, but somehow I start to feel overtired and cranky in October and this feeling builds to a crescendo of bottomless fatigue and barely-concealed rage by Christmas. Maybe it is the fact that school starts to get really demanding for the kids and they go off the rails a little bit, or ... Read More
True Story: Zumba Terrifies Me
Would you Zumba with this woman? The Background: Once, five years after I had my last child, I was mistaken for a pregnant woman in Costco. To be fair, I had eaten a brownie the night before (ok, a half-pan of brownies) and I was wearing a fitted dress that nicely displayed my mini-Buddha belly. "Oh my gosh you are cute!" the Costco sample lady gushed. "How far along are ... Read More