My husband and I are always on the lookout for that perfect restaurant — a place where we can indulge our adult relaxation desires (edgy things like eating and drinking in peace), while not forcing our children to do the impossible: sit still in a seat while awake. Back in Brooklyn, we’d occasionally time things…
Food Preservation: Yellow Squash Edition
When thinking about canning, I have to resist my first impulse to think of it as a grandmotherly-type activity. Even seeing things in Mason jars makes me think “old lady.” Yet, canning, like knitting and making your own cheese, is what all the hip young people are doing these days. Right? Seriously, though, with the…
My Dad’s Harvest
We go to my Dad’s place in E. Texas quite regularly, and, the past couple of months, we’ve settled into a routine. As soon as we wake up on Saturday, often before breakfast, we head out to the half-acre he’s plowed into a garden. At first, it was readying the area, or putting plants or…
I did it!
Traveling on business so not a lot of time to write (plus my WordPress is acting funny and I had my last composition deleted), but suffice it to say that I finished! There were very difficult moment, especially on the run, but I just kept going. The distances, by the way, were 1/2 mile…