The last time we were at my father’s house, the girlie spotted a “sushi maker” – namely a handful of boxes from Sushi Chef , including short...

The girlie wanted to make place cards for Thanksgiving dinner, so I dug up some ancient index cards, folded them in half, and cut them to si...

There are some things in this world that I just don't understand: Scented antiperspirant Flavored coffee American cheese singles Artific...

I don't really use the Amazon "Gift Organizer" but I did set it up a couple of years ago, and made a list of the people for wh...

What is monkey bread anyway? There are myriad variations . Some are rich and gooey, others are more austere. Some cheat by using refrige...

For heaven's sake, does anyone really need a doll that pees? I thought they'd gone the way of all things, but apparently they'v...

My mother, in 1956. Her lipstick matches her apple.

Yo, people! In a fit of madness I signed up for Neilochka's Great Interview Experiment , and ending up interviewing -R-, who writes And ...

So, because the girl turned six last week, we threw her a birthday party. And, like all of the other parties we’ve had for her, we had i...

When I was a little girl, sleeping in the wrought iron bed with brass finial balls that is now my daughter's, I slept under a quilt that...

The A. A. Milne poem titled The End is obligatory upon becoming six: When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. W...

"The In The Know Short Film Competition sought to eliminate the stigma of infertility and encourage couples who have struggled with inf...

There is a simple joy in going to the supermarket with my husband, but without our child. It's calm. There are no pleas for this (No, we...

If you give a kid a camera, she's going to want to make a movie.

The Bloggess is in Japan. Her Japanese is, apparently, lacking. My foreign language skills are mediocre, though je parle un peu Français ...

I know I've said this before, but one of the things about the CSA is that it is strangely liberating to have no choice in what you get....

A big part of my childhood was seeing the New York City Ballet Nutcracker every couple of years. For me, it's the ur Nutcracker: the se...

She went off to the undertaker in a nightgown. A soft cotton-knit nightgown from Lands' End. Heather grey, with a henley neck and a hand...

Books. I surround myself with books. There are books in every room in the house, save the bathrooms, because I think reading on the toilet...

Nora thought I might have something interesting to say. There's a " flat cat " on the shelf in my office. She's been with...