According to my best friend forever, Michelle, it’s time to get moving on this year’s garden. Right-o, let me see; I need 27 starter potatoes, a pack of cucumber seeds, a roto-tiller, and HOLD THE PHONE! I’m going about this all wrong. Forget the roto-tiller, I’ll take an iced latte and 23 fifth graders.
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This weekend brought not only the first day of a spring break full of sassy pre-pre-teen attitude, but also the first day of spring. Eternal optimist that I’m known to be, I chose to focus on welcoming the new season, and not on the emotional trip that is repetitive eye-rolling. I’m a glass half full [...]
Read more...Sometimes nature is cruel. Other times, while it’d be an exaggeration to call nature cruel, she’s not exactly helping things by subtly antagonizing the underlying issues of sibling rivalry.
Thanks, nature, for this. One more reason to pit sister against sister in the eternal contest for who is best.
Allow me to settle the question equitably, in [...]
Read more...Thank you for asking, but no, I am not going to Australia. I am not going to work and live on the islands of the Great Barrier Reef. And yes, I too am floored by the audacity of this rejection at the hands of the tourism council of Queensland. I simply cannot understand their blasé [...]
Read more...I am shocked. I had been wracking my brain trying desperately to write something garden-y amid late winter doldrums that would somehow resonate, and Bam! I hit the health-food jackpot. The outpouring in support of chard, sleeper vegetable of the year, has been overwhelming.
Here I was bravely choking down the stuff in the name of [...]
My daughter actually said this last night:
Mom, can I eat the chard now, or do I have to wait for dinner?
I kid you not, this is good stuff. Even I’ve been eating my greens lately; it’s that good.
Ingredients: Olive oil, chard, salt
Wash chard, and blot – leave it a little bit damp.
Slice and remove the [...]