My own unwillingness to do the things that I know that I should and want to do continues to amaze me. Every day, I feel like I have to start again. I walk through the work and interactions of my day, and, for the zillionth time, I gently remind myself of those aspects that someday,…
lemon balsamic chicken
I don’t know what you did, but thank you! Just minutes after writing my last post, I got to work on dinner. And from the moment everyone got home from school to the 7:00 bedtime click of the girls’ door, there were… (are you ready for this?) NO TEARS. And hopefully I can say this…
perfect baked salmon
I’m going to wish you a happy mother’s day today. Because it’s Monday, and maybe no one brought your breakfast in bed this morning. I appreciate you, especially on this day after mother’s day. This is my mother. Beautiful, isn’t she? There she is, 23, after an excessively long homebirthing labor. Her midwife, Elizabeth Davis,…
masa harina-beef casserole
I miss New Mexico today. It hits me without warning, and usually the missing gets in my nose first. My memory creates a smell and it gets stuck there. The most common is roasting green chile, but of course there’s also pinon. And there is the smell of the tamale. There are a lot of…
eat the weeds
Before we begin, I just want to say that I absolutely have not forgotten our pie crust adventures! There are certainly a list of things that are going undone at the moment. but the pie crust will not end up along side the sweeping of the stairs and the organizing of the mudroom. Today, I…
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