Category: Family

I’ve been working on quite a baking project. It took months of effort, and the result weighed in at a whopping seven pounds, nine ounces. I think the finished dish is pretty photogenic though, what …

...When I got pregnant, I did consider that my current culinary acumen wouldn’t manage to keep our child alive once she joined us on the outside. But I figured I had plenty of time before …

I’ve been watching bemusedly as the latest “battle” in the “mommy wars” has exploded over the internet. First, it was a controversial statement by a French sociologist that attachment parenting is anti-feminist. (For those not …

The plus side of this exercise is that I was able to rediscover some of my favorite books from her babyhood, that were read over and over again and beloved by both mother and child. …

This is my husband. I started dating him when we were both 19. NINETEEN! Can you imagine? If my daughter came home and told me she had met the man she was going to marry …

My Facebook feed has been awash with this piece on the Huffington post by Glennon Melton entitled “Don’t Carpe Diem.” (which might tell you quite about about my Facebook friends). In it, Melton rails against …

It’s hard to deny that 2011 has been a pretty shit year for my family.  We lost my dad in January, our dog in March, and my grandmother just this past September.  The Nuni and …