Want to dip into nostalgia for the pleasing mustiness of library stacks and the tactile joy of oak-fronted card catalogues? Click here .

I took a half a vacation day yesterday because it was my day to babysit the CSA pick-up site. I got there at about 2:15 to help unload the ...

I swear, I don't know where she came from sometimes. Me, I hardly ever wear a skirt and rarely wear heels. She changes her clothes at ...

Julia Child in her kitchen: My mother in her kitchen: And you know what? They both went to Smith.

I watch hardly any television, but I got all excited reading the paper this morning. In December, Ovation is running the Battle of the Nu...

The child is completely erratic as to identifying letters, and can't spell her name past the first two or three letters, but she’s into ...

Dawn tagged me to disclose seven weird and/or random things about me. There are rules and stuff, but rules? We don't need no stinkin...

Yesterday, we traveled (10 minutes) over the (tiny) river and through the (suburban) woods to Miss M.'s paternal grandparents' house...

In preparation for Thanksgiving, the children at Miss M.'s daycare discussed what they were thankful for and the teachers wrote it all u...

I was going to post a picture for Wordless Wednesday, but I got waylaid by Julie’s Hump Day Hmm topic – music: What does it mean for you, ...

Every time I read Mother Goose to Miss M., I think of In The Night Kitchen , and vice versa: Mother Goose (Iona Opie & Rosemary Wells)...

It's prize season again! Maybe it's because all the NaBloPoMo participants (6152 last I looked) are looking for easy content. Afte...

When I picked up Miss M. at daycare yesterday, she announced to me: I'm going to be an opera singer when I grow up, when I'm 16 . La...

I'm thrilled to be on the list of Just Posts again for November. Thrilled. Especially because while I nominated one of my own posts (...

I'm home sick today, and the doorbell just rang. It was the mailman, with a box that was too big for the mailbox. Within? Meyer lemons,...

It's dark now when we pick up our vegetables. And last night, the light in the barn went out just when we got there. So while someone ...

Among the pleasures of raising a little person is the revisiting and rediscovery of books from my childhood. And, as my mother saved everyt...

Through work, I came by a copy of a new kids book by Denise Gruska called The Only Boy in Ballet Class . It's quite sweet - it's wri...

It's Children's Book Week this week, or so says the Children's Book Council, and since I've had some musings on books rattl...

The party was a success. The birthday girl wore her Glinda costume until it was time to run around outside. Adults ate adult food, kids at...