Last month, the girl's school had a book fair. Now that she's in middle school, it's a kid only event; parents don't get to ...

I can't not. I have to. The day after the rabbit PowerPoint , we got a kitten PowerPoint. Here it is. Yes, they teach PowerPoi...

Oh hi. Every day, I write posts in my head. Long involved complicated chatty erudite posts. But then I never find the time to apply finger...

Gosh, I love the figure skating at the Winter Olympics. I even love the squabbling about the scoring and the judges . But I really love gett...

Yes, I am a sucker for Valentine's Day. I love sending out handmade cards to friends and family. For Christmas, my sister-in-law gave me...

Over the weekend, the girl asked me to take her to the Metropolitan Museum of Art so she could sketch in the Greek/Roman sculpture gallerie...

Last spring, I found out that Pete Seeger was playing a benefit concert at a Unitarian Church not too far away from where we live. Pete! In ...

My mother lived alone for many years, and as a result, had a rather zen thing about eating. In the summer, dinner was a salad. Greens, crunc...

The very back of my mother's black book has a section on entertaining - a diary, if you will, recording dates and guests and menus for p...

One of the things I did for Christmas was make scanned-printed-bound copies of my mother's cookbook , her well-loved, oft-repaired black...

Someone I know is a great player with words - he can find palindromes at the drop of a hat, DENIERS REINED being a recent great example. B...

A couple of years ago, I read a book by Jane McGonigal called " Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the...

Interestingly enough, while I was reading Seven Life Lessons of Chaos , I was simultaneously reading Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker . It...

My daughter is in the fifth grade, and tacked up on the wall in her classroom is a quote: The mark of a creative person is a willingness ...

Here's what I think. If you go the the emergency room, the hospital should not be allowed to - three months later - send you fundraising...

Okay! You've got a big bowl of chilled dough, templates, parchment, a Silpat , cookie sheets, an icing syringe, the ingredients for the ...

For years, starting when I was about 12, and annually until sometime in my 20s, I made a gingerbread house at Christmas time. It was a major...

Because part of what I do with my life has to do with not-for-profit organizations and raising money, and because I am as bemused by Faceboo...

It's cold. So, I stopped at the Greenmarket for a hot cider on the way into the office, as I am wont to do. The guy put the cup down in ...