domestic dilettante, humorless feminist shrew

So if you’re anything like me, you hit about twenty-four hours before any Big Deal Supper, and then you start to think to yourself that hey, maybe I should figure out what we’re eating/what I’m taking. For you last minute decides, I have twenty relatively easy side dishes that would be fantastic with the traditional [...]

This year for Thanksgiving, we’re headed to my parents’ house up on Lake Erie. It’s not quite what our original plans were, but my grandfather’s health is failing, and it seems likely he’s not going to make it to 2010. Hopefully he’ll be well enough to join us for supper–he’s currently in a rehabilitation facility, [...]

Maura has become very opinionated about her clothing of late. She hates wearing pants–unless they’re worn under a skirt–and is about to devote her life to the fine art of accessorizing. It’s awful. She’s alarmingly pretty. I hate children.
What you can’t see in that second picture is that she’s wearing an awesome Threadless tee (this [...]

A few days ago, the Marx Food blog announced that they were having a vanilla bean photography contest.
This is a list of things I like: corporate blogs that actually add value instead of just saying “Hey, we have stuff! Buy it!”; vanilla; photography.
Obviously, I emailed, begging entry space. And hey, lucky me, I [...]

An incomplete list of reasons that I am not reading your blog, following your Twitter feed, or friending you on Facebook.

Facebook is the easy one. I have not friended you–or sent you hugs, or mafia pimps, or cows, or whatever kids are sending nowdays–because while I have a tab that’s always open to Facebook, I [...]

And, just like that, we’ve gone from late summer to winter.
Things have changed very abruptly this year. We went from gorgeous, brightly colored trees to bare branches almost overnight. When I leave work now, it’s already half dark.
I’m the parent of a seven year old. I’m quite certain that I didn’t order a [...]

Halloween! After an entire week being ill, I have to admit that Halloween wasn’t high on my list of awesome things to do, but since we have all been six at some point, I bet that everyone can guess how not well canceling Halloween would go.
Plus, really, if we cancel Halloween, I lose the candy [...]