This certainly isn’t a new idea, but it’s one I love. You can skip the smelly candles and incense diffusers, and instead you can improve the smell in your house (maybe I should speak for myself) by just simmering good-smelling things on the stove. I first saw this when I was working for a woman’s [...]
It was too rainy in San Diego to see the lunar eclipse… instead I celebrated the eve of the shortest day of the year by cooking up some winter squash. I had a lot of residual pumpkins around, and I never feel quite ready to part with them on the first day of advent, when [...]
We’ve talked about it, dreamed about it, thought about it… and finally, this year, for the first time, we have convinced our collective families (Blackmars, Rosses, Rices, and so on) to participate in our first ever no-gift Christmas. We’ve tried training-wheel versions of this for many years… picking a name and only giving gifts to [...]
How is it that someone always seems to be mowing the patch of grass directly below my home office window? “It’s mowed, dammit!” I scream to the poor fellow whose fate it seems to be to endlessly circle this battered chunk of grass on an industrial capacity riding lawnmower. Of course, he never hears me, [...]
Staying home with a sick kid has its downside. I feel like we’ve been glued to each other for three days now, and it’s made it hard to shower, exercise, wash dishes, and obviously, go to work. On the positive side, though, it’s not often these days that I get to sit down in front [...]
