Happy July. I’m guessing that you might want to be more off your computer than on these days, so I won’t keep you long. It’s summer around here, which means that everything changes and the house gets very messy. I’m down one kid at camp (the Unitarian anarchist sort), and I’ll have her back in…
march 11
(Old picture! But it fits the mood, wouldn’t you say?) If I were more organized this would be a nice list of a post, but I’ll ramble if it’s all the same to you. It’s just that I’ve got all these things I need to tell you about and it just doesn’t seem to be…
mochi ice cream cake
Last week as I was making Rosie’s requested birthday dinner, I did the thing I often do: I made some very strange mistakes. At first, years back, it seemed like a fluke. Maybe I was tripling a recipe when I shouldn’t have, or (as usual), I was crushing under a time pressure. But at this point it’s…
tara's chocolate chip cookies
When we showed up at the pavilion at Cheeseman Park in Denver to set up for my father-in-law’s funeral last Wednesday, there was a guy in tiny black shorts pole dancing for a camera crew. It was 9 in the morning , and I guess they figured they could shoot a yoga pole dancing video…
how to make just enough cake
At our house, cake season stretches from February through April, from Rosie’s birthday through Sadie’s (with Joey’s in between). It parallels dirty-piles-of-icy snow season, which is fortunate, because the cake helps. I’m not particularly good at making birthday cakes, but I love to do it anyway. I like frostings with not much sugar, so often…
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