Shishito peppers: A summer delicacy available at your farmers market
East Asian peppers pack flavor and can be found locally
DATE: Jul 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food
In season now: Microbiome-boosting leafy greens
Arugula, spinach, kale, bok choi, chock-full of cancer-fighters
DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food
Raising kids is wondrous, thank you for reading
It was 11 years ago – a baby affixed to my postpartum body and a toddler ricocheting off my person in search of random dogs’ mouths to investigate – that I dreamed up the idea to write this ...
DATE: Jan 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
Kids declare themselves in so many different ways
It’s 7 a.m. and our bed has been filled with small visitors and their weaponized elbows for some time.
The sun is just rising, except it’s snowing and everything has been transfo...
DATE: Nov 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
In mutual generosity, we can all thrive
It’s a Saturday morning, and I am thinking of nothing more than sipping coffee while the trees outside flare into deeper intensities of their autumnal selves.
Later, there may be...
DATE: Oct 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
Emotions are nothing to be afraid of
We arrive at our farm-stay by late afternoon. We’re going to stay on a farm, we’ve told the kids with the kind of enthusiasm that works on toddlers, or like we’re impersonating telemarketers...
DATE: Sep 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
Sadness mixes with relief at summer’s end
August is closing out this spree of carefree summer days, of spontaneous plans welling up from the abyss of unstructured time; and the equal joy of having no plans, the kids sprawled about r...
DATE: Aug 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
Stepping aside to let siblings build their relationship
The thought comes to me like a message from a burning bush, from someplace beyond my mind’s usual mundane chatter.
Col is in Washington, D.C., with his grandma. Rose is inside re...
DATE: Jul 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
As fire burns, a reminder that we live in uncertainty
We’re gathered for dinner in our hot house, closed up as a barrier against the smoke that fills the Animas Valley by night, creeping down from the 416 Fire like an escaped thief as we sleep....
DATE: Jun 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
Celebrating the good old days of right now
We are just entering the seasonal festival that is flowering trees.
First fruit trees, now lilacs. I’ve been mesmerized from our upstairs windows, mesmerized on the ground, mesme...
DATE: May 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
The art and craft of making a successful request
It’s 8 p.m. on a weeknight, which means we should be ushering small people through the stations of winding down: read aloud, teeth-brushing, pajamas and, ultimately, the long, one-way march ...
DATE: Apr 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
When all voices are heard, the group wins
It’s Sunday, and I’m craving some family time, the magical kind where we’re all grateful to be together, feeling close and enjoying the same activity, which is precisely the one I have chose...
DATE: Mar 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Adventures in Motherhood
