I saw this poster on the subway stairs yesterday. Awesome, no? It's part of a NYS campaign to educate boys so they don't grow up to...

I’ve been thinking about marriage recently. The other day, I had lunch with my friend the priest – who happens to be the gay Episcopal pries...

I took last week off of work so I could putter around my house and put away all of Miss M.'s accumulated artwork. They'd done a unit...

Two of my appointed tasks in the care of my mother are the replenishing of the coffers (so we can pay the ladies) and the replenishing of th...

I love my child's daycare. Love. I feel enormously lucky that we found it, that she got a spot there, that it's close to the house...

I've missed my books. For four years, we've lived in this house, and most of the books have lived in the cellar. Oh, there were ex...

I feel pretty lucky to work near the Union Square Greenmarket , and to belong to a CSA , and to commute through Grand Central where there is...

Four jet planes Three nights in a bed alone Two days of Blogher One lost jacket I'm home! Blogher was fun. Blogher wasn't really wh...

Four jet planes Three nights in a bed alone Two days of Blogher One lost jacket I'm home! Blogher was fun. Blogher wasn't really wh...

My bag is packed. I've been reading posts hither and yon, along the lines of "you'll know me by my smile/pump/laugh" or ...

Not so long ago, I read a column by Libby Gruner about books for babies. She wrote eloquently about picking books as a gift for a friend...

When Noble Pig decides to host a potato Ho-Down , and I have potatoes in the kitchen and herbs coming out my ears, all begging to be made in...

Is there anything better than watching your kid run around at dusk catching fireflies? Oh maybe if she's wearing a pair of sailor suit ...

The newsletter from my CSA this week included a recipe from one of my favorite cooking blogs . And the Times ran a front page story about c...

As part of my strategy to regain my equilibrium and lose some of my crabbiness, I'm taking some time off in dribs and drabs this summer....

A package! Is it for me? We open the big box that was left on the front porch and find Nana Star, her Moonman, and the first two Nana Star ...

My paternal grandfather is probably the only person I will have ever known who was born and died in the same house. In the house. He was b...

I've been downloading updates all day long because my office computer took the kind of turn for the worse yesterday that required a comp...

Besides the fact that we need cats once again just because we need cats, we need cats so that when I make reference to things that make me ...

Ooh, a pink popsicle from the queen of pink! I'm going away for the weekend as soon as I can tear myself away from the computer and tos...