Everyone has favorite things. I’m not talking about a crackling fire or the smell of cut grass, but real tangible things. And let’s be honest. Nobody really sits around thinking about raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens. Who’s thankful that kittens have whiskers? Isn’t it just naturally assumed they’ll be born with them? Are […]
[Continue reading...]Rising
April 10, 2012 By
Every Monday, I take off my wedding ring and pull my hair back in order to mix, pound, and watch bread rise through the dark oven door. I always need to control something, and my two-year-old never listens. So bread has become my new muse since leaving the corporate world. Watch out, Julia. Here I […]
[Continue reading...]sore backs and sunburns
April 3, 2012 By
This past weekend, our family decided we’d do something practical. Worthwhile. Healthy. We decided that two adults and two children under the age of six could so totally build a garden large enough to feed a small nation. With extra-high raised beds. And dirt that needed to be shoveled in truckload at a time. Of […]
[Continue reading...]diamond dust
April 2, 2012 By
I am no stranger to eye surgery. I’ve had so many of them you’d think it would be easier just to rip the thing out and replace it with wood puddy. I’m sure all eye cancer survivors are familiar with this feeling. But the last one was different. It could have been because I was […]
[Continue reading...]peace for the wandering soul
March 28, 2012 By
I have always been surrounded by wanderers. I swim amidst thinkers and singers. Artists and tinkerers of all kinds. Whether they have spouses or partners, dogs or made-up friends, these are my people. I’ve always been drawn to those who challenged life. Pushed back the limitations. Created things. I look at kids nowadays, forced and […]
[Continue reading...]pork chops for breakfast
March 26, 2012 By
While the rest of the Western world is baking muffins, chomping on triskets, and sucking on popsicles, I’m at home gnawing on a boiled egg. It’s not because I particularly love eggs. It’s just that I’m on a low-carb diet, which is the one thing I know works. I have to start running to hasten […]
[Continue reading...]ribbons
March 20, 2012 By
I have articles from the Department of Justice sitting all around my ankles, sprayed out like a fan in neat little piles. I haven’t strayed far from the computer for hours and a babysitter is attending to my daughter. A half-started and half-witted attempt to summarize the laws of Medicare fraud lies unattended on the […]
[Continue reading...]New makeover, Fiji style
March 20, 2012 By
I’m trying to be sensible these days. We operate on a budget, we try to not dine out, and I quit buying Fiji water. Even though it tastes like rain from heaven. Even though I, alone, was probably supporting the entire island’s economy with my water slogging. And it made me feel all rich and […]
[Continue reading...]new beginnings
March 8, 2012 By
I quit my job. Well, that’s a bit of a lie. I walked out of my job as General Counsel for a large and wonderful company to stay home more. To bake and volunteer and write. And take the occasional calls from my former company that might crop up that they find useful to ask […]
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