Category Archives: love As she gets older my daughter and I spend less time together, but our drives to school a few days a week have spawned what I refer to as my morning lecture series. Mornings are hectic and we hardly ever achieve a clean getaway; one of us invariably forgets and has to go back for […]  We all have ways of maintaining our sanity and lately I’ve been baking myself sane. In the last week I’ve written the phrase ‘I’m losing my mind’ more times than I have in the rest of my life combined. I feel like I’ve tumbled through the looking glass, and I can’t recognize my surroundings. I’m […]  I will never forget the shock of the smack my mom gave me. No one had ever spanked or even yelled at me until we moved into the new house. I was six the summer we moved there. It was a beautiful, old Tudor house with more than enough room for my parents, my brother […]  Disclaimer: this is not a political post Although for some people Inauguration Day was a fine one, for me it was stressful. If you know me at all you’re aware that I deal with stress by cooking, yes, eating too, but cooking is what soothes me far better than eating. When I cook or bake […]  I was planning my first ever New Year’s eve party to ring in 1982 and needed the perfect party dress. A dress that would make me feel pretty, grown up and like the perfect hostess. I didn’t know what I was looking for when I set off shopping, but as soon as I saw it […] |
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