This week started wet and cold and then got hot, hot–so much so that it immediately became hard to go to the bank or the library or even to drive through town as we do on the way home from school without the girls saying that we just must get ice cream, because mommy it is just…
the living finish
There’s some chaos in the kitchen this week. We finally exchanged the plywood counters for recycled chalk board and butcher block, and my friends Adam and Justin have been in here cutting and polishing and gluing. It’s really so beautiful, and I’ll share pictures soon… we’ll have a little kitchen tour. Also, chaos in my…
DC travels: PART 1… FAMILY
So I just got back from a family trip to Washington DC. We went to visit Joey’s brother’s family, and then their sister came out as well with her two kids. I know that I never had the joy of sibling aggression and drama growing up, but even after being around it for a while,…
black bottom cupcakes
My grandmother called herself a pagan, and the way she demonstrated this spiritual identity to herself was by throwing me a Spring party every year. I’m not quite sure how this tradition started, but somewhere along the way she started making black bottom cupcakes, and I still remember munching them with my friends under the…
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 