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my children are kind of weird 24 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am
Elliora: I want a snack. [Opens freezer.] Ooh, we have peas! Can I have some peas? [I make her some frozen peas. Five minutes later, Annalie wanders through the room and sees Elliora eating peas.] A...
the winner of a signed copy of Eleanor & Park is… 1 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
Hiya! So ” as soon as I can” ended up being a little later than I’d planned, thanks to illness and just life in general, but I do have a signed copy of Rainbow Rowells‘s book Eleanor & Park to give aw...
Win a signed copy of Eleanor & Park! 19 Jul 2013 | 07:29 am
You’ve heard me talking about my friend Rainbow‘s second book Eleanor & Park, right? I feel like I’ve been talking about it incessantly for a year or so. Then again, lots of people have been talking a...
Good-bye, Roger Ebert 5 Apr 2013 | 01:35 am
I’m truly saddened by today’s news of Roger Ebert’s death. I’ve been reading his movie reviews regularly for the past 20 years, and even when I disagreed with his opinions I enjoyed reading what he ha...
the taste of memory 14 Mar 2013 | 12:15 am
Years ago when we lived in Ottawa, there was a coffee shop in the Glebe that served this amazing sunflower-seed hummus and cucumber sandwich on triangle-shaped multigrain bread. I wasn’t a super-adven...
how to get what you need 28 Jan 2013 | 12:51 am
Elliora: DADDY I NEED RAISINS. Troy: You’re supposed to ask nicely, like, “Daddy, can you please get me something?” E: Daddy, can you please get me something? T: No, you’re supposed to say, “Can you p...
happy new year! 17 Jan 2013 | 06:46 am
My favorite hat, knitted by my friend Jen Oh hai there. Yes, I’m still alive. Just out of the habit of telling you all what I’m doing. So…what have I been doing? Well, taking lots of sunset photos, as...
Christmas is 6 days away 19 Dec 2012 | 09:59 pm
Ad above; blog post below. Wait. What!? How did that happen? Almost the entire month of December slipped away from me. I haven’t made any cookies, nor shipped any presents, let alone wrapped them. I h...
birthday interrupted 7 Dec 2012 | 06:32 am
O hai, paid advertisement! Gotta pay for these parties somehow. Elliora turned two last week, and I didn’t even mention it here. Poor neglected second child. (Poor neglected blog is probably more accu...
Operation Pay For the Hole : dottery pottery! 4 Dec 2012 | 10:28 pm
Do you read Balancing Everything? Jessica (AKA kerflop, AKA verymom) and her family have dealt with a number of health issues in the past year or two, a couple of them involving surgery. The most rece...
