I’m having one of those days.
Actually, it’s been a few days but who’s counting.
No matter how fast I spill my wheels I can’t get out of the mud.
The mud here being work and kids and meals and gardens and field trip slips and summer plans and exercise and homework, never mind my poor neglected novel [...]
You bet I accepted the Huffington Post’s Week of Eating In Challenge. I’m all in. Shine that spotlight on homemade meals and watch me frugally budget. Who knows? All that money I’m saving could add up to bags of gold that will allow me, some day, to bid adieu to my aging appliances and rip [...]
Read more...Recently I participated in a conference call with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. By participated I mean that I told him a thing or two about feeding our nation’s children and doing right by our schools. Either that, or I listened quietly and jotted down a note or two. It’s kind of hard to remember.
The [...]
Whooo-hooo! It’s party planting time.
I know that you’re digging out from feet of snow and shivering huddled around a cup of coffee while your runny-nosed, snow-bound children run ragged through a house that hasn’t been aired out in months, but come on. I’m ready to get down and dirty dig in some dirt.
My garden is [...]
I’m not going to lie to you, teeth are revolting.
Not those straight pearly whites sitting nicely in your mouth. Those are gorgeous. I’m talking about the natty bloody things that swivel and dangle and eventually jump ship from the mouths of my babes.
Ewwww. They are so gross.
I am not a wimp. I can handle this [...]
Not that there’s anything wrong with the stuff. In fact, a brief perusal of the internet uncovered signs that whiskey is loaded with antioxidants. I just don’t enjoy fire cascading down my throat, so trust me when I say that whiskey and I ended our affair before it ever began.
I tell you this in the [...]
I did it. I one upped my Grandma.
It’s not a nice thing to say, I’ll give you that. But it’s true. I made Grandma’s cake, and mine came out better.
Huh, it sounds kind of obnoxious when I write it out loud like that.
Still, if she were here today I know she would be proud. She [...]
You are driven to eat well. You have pledged to unearth healthy foods in your quest to do right by yourself and your family. You will eat more vegetables.
You, my dear, haven’t thought enough about all those involved.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe the chard would rather not be consumed thank you very [...]
By issues, I’m referring, of course, to food.
And by you, I mean of course, me.
Wow, I’m feeling better already just airing out that confession. Earlier in the week I felt differently. Earlier in the week I sat smugly way on the other side of a phone call from food issues.
I was talking to my sister, [...]
For some, the holidays are a time of peace. A time to reflect on special stuff, family stuff. A time to recall the little things that made Grandma so sweet.
This year the holidays gave me a wallop by way of a sudden and tremendous recognition that my Grandma, all four feet ten inches of her, [...]