"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * One of the things about bl...

The Union Square Greenmarket is up and running, though the snow is blowing under the tents and onto the produce. And the rooftops out m...

On October 11, I got an email from a PR flack, asking if I’d like to do a review/giveaway of products to clean dishwashers and washing machi...

At work, not so long ago, I came across a fairly scandalous typo of the damn you spell check homonym variety. I mean, the manager of a thea...

If you turn off the sound on the iPhone, it's not hard to take surveillance photos on the train. Because sometimes you just have to d...

One of the little pleasures in my work is that I occasionally get to go to meetings at the old Tweed Courthouse , which is not generally ope...

It was supposed to be me and my father and my sister, flying to California to visit his brother, our uncle, who's not well with some ill...

The girl is now the happy possessor of two American Girl dolls.  She got Julie, the hippie chick from 1974, for her birthday, and Julie'...

There was a cauliflower. There was a need for comfort food. There was cheese on hand. And drifting around in the sea of paper on the dining ...

I had a root canal in November. It was kind of an ordeal, because the root canal led to needing a crown, and the temporary crown fell out on...

You know, I like math. I was always good at it, well except for the fiasco of 8th grade algebra , which I failed because I didn't want t...

I was drooling over the Recipe Redux  column in the Times magazine the other day, thinking about making the vintage chocolate rum mousse an...

Brave Smallfoot ran barefoot from the hot tub back to the house.

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a da...

This reminds me a little of a supermarket display I saw in New Mexico once. In that case it was lard: in the one pound box, the two pound ...

Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday dear Magpie, Happy birthday to me. I didn't get everything done . I stal...

I'm very pleased and kind of tickled that my post about charitable giving with children got picked up by BlogHer. If you missed it here ...

Twas the night before Christmas, And all through the house Lots of creatures were stirring, and Barbie was riding round and round unde...

In the event that someone gives you a box of grapefruit for Christmas, think about saving the rinds. Candied grapefruit rind, or peel, is ea...