For the Love of Bread
Baking bread allows me to do all the things I love: Create, experiment, explore, and make people happy by feeding them.
Read MoreEverything Must Go
Getting rid of your stuff is supposed to make you happier. Except when it doesn’t.
Read MoreSome Like it Hot
If you can’t take the heat, you probably won’t like what I’m cooking for dinner. Just ask my family.
Read MoreThe Girl in the Picture
When you look at old pictures, what do you see? Is it perfection, or potential?
Read MoreSummer Siesta
When my boys get home from camp or our adventures in the city they are hot and tired and a little sick of each other, and of me. All they want are their screens. Left to their own devices, so to speak, they don’t talk to me, to each other, to their dad when he arrives home and says hello. They are hypnotized. I felt the irony of limiting their tablet time while I hid in the kitchen or sneaked into the bathroom to scroll through Instagram or check Facebook for the umpteenth time that day. Clearly we all have a problem. And we are not alone.
Read MoreThe Parent Trip
There are some trips in life that you just can’t prepare for.
Read MoreGirl on the Run
Before I loved to run, I really hated it.
Read MoreTeach Your Children Well
I’ve had many great teachers in and out of classrooms, but when I stop to remember, a few come immediately to mind. Teachers who lifted me up, showed me how to break the rules, taught me to lead, and the woman who was my first teacher.
Read MoreWrite On, Mom
I have friends who are on Version 2.0 of their lives: They have become photographers, jewelry makers, poets. They are full people, and parents. They are making art. They inspire me.