by Susie Meserve | Jun 26, 2019 | Motherhood, Recipes | 0 Comments
Didja notice I skipped a week of Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck? Forgive me. It’s summer, and we wrapped up the school year with a two-night camping trip in the Sierra foothills, came home for two nights and went camping again. So last week was a wash.... read more
by Susie Meserve | Jun 13, 2019 | Motherhood, Recipes | 4 Comments
We went to Ben’s sister J’s last weekend in the 90 degree heat to check in on her beautiful and quirky property in Sonoma. We met her in Santa Rosa at a farm where a lovely woman named Vivian raises chickens. Little Sammy immediately availed himself of the... read more
by Susie Meserve | Jun 6, 2019 | Motherhood, Recipes | 4 Comments
Meal planning, let alone cooking delicious vegetarian dinners, has been the last thing on my mind. In these parts, we’ve been eating a lot of toast. It’s been a minor doozy of a few weeks. I finally got rid of my two-week cold only to throw my back out,... read more
by Susie Meserve | May 31, 2019 | Motherhood, Recipes | 0 Comments
I love me some Indian food. While the Indian food we white people make at home isn’t quite as spectacular as what we get from Vik’s or Udupi Palace in Berkeley, nonetheless we make a respectable Indian meal in these parts. The foundation? Dal. It’s... read more
by Susie Meserve | May 22, 2019 | Mindfulness & Other California Woo-Woo, Recipes | 0 Comments
I know what you’re thinking: you don’t blog for three months and then we get… vegetarian dinners? Well, first of all, you know how I love to play food blogger. But second of all, I’ve been in a bit of despair lately about climate change.... read more
by Susie Meserve | Feb 6, 2019 | Anxiety & Mental Health, Mindfulness & Other California Woo-Woo, Motherhood, Writing | 2 Comments
A few people reported that they found my last blog post depressing. “Is it just the end of hope??” one asked, but that wasn’t what I meant, not exactly, and I’m sorry if you, too, found depressing the idea that normalcy is a fallacy. I hoped... read more
by Susie Meserve | Jan 21, 2019 | Anxiety & Mental Health, Mindfulness & Other California Woo-Woo, Motherhood, Writing | 4 Comments
January is one of my favorite months, even with the rain, even with the dreariness, even with the promise and delight of the holidays over. In January, I get four weeks off…when no one else in my family does. The deliciousness of having weeks on end of paid... read more
by Susie Meserve | Dec 12, 2018 | Anxiety & Mental Health, Mindfulness & Other California Woo-Woo, Writing | 4 Comments
In Norway, this time of year is called the Mørketid, the dark time, and the Norwegians, who are used to it, light candles at four pm and have dinner early and snuggle into their warm houses. Or, if it’s snowed, they put on their skis and head to the lighted trails... read more
by Susie Meserve | Oct 11, 2018 | Motherhood | 4 Comments
A few weeks ago, I wrote an honest—and a little scary—post on Facebook about my fears that my son Sam, who was then almost two, would be labeled a bully. He was deep into a biting and hitting phase, and I heard another mom at the playground tell her kid to be careful... read more
by Susie Meserve | Aug 30, 2018 | Anxiety & Mental Health, Motherhood | 2 Comments
Ah, family vacation! We had a long and windy summer, you might even say a lazy one. Instead of filling L’s weeks with expensive camps, feeling frugal, I emptied out the calendar and kept him home a lot of the time while Sam went off to daycare as usual. Mostly, it... read more
I'm working from the premise that motherhood is not just all diapers, tantrums, and setting limits. It's interesting. Okay, sometimes. 