More than a Mother
Exploring the landscape of modern motherhood and more
High, Low, Buffalo: Surviving The Spring of the Virus
We made it through two weeks of homeschooling, two weeks of working from home with two kids around, two weeks of The Spring of the Virus. Even if the Shelter in Place order lasts into summer, into fall—God forbid—it will be springtime in my mind when my future wise...
The Best Summer Yet
[ASIDE: Reader, I'm not happy with the aesthetics of my blog posts. I tried to make the font larger for better readability, but then things looked even more catty-wonkus. If there are any Wordpress mavens out there, please drop me a line, yo?] At the end of last...
Finale, Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck: Summer Pasta
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. Camping...
Part Four, Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck: Gado Gado
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 flock,...
Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck Part Three: Tofu Two Ways
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, only to...
Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck Part Two: Indian Feast
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 delicious, it's...
Vegetarian Dinners That Don’t Suck
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. If you haven't been...
An End to Rationing Joy
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 that by calling out our...
Dispelling the Myth of “Back to Normal”
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 reprieve...
Reflections from the Dark Time
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...
About Me
I'm working from the premise that motherhood is not just all diapers, tantrums, and setting limits. It's interesting. Okay, sometimes. My new poetry collection is out from Blue Light Press!
