Recipes – Page 3 – The Well-Cooked Life

As we prepare for family and discussions of religious, political, and intellectual freedom, my family celebrates the year marker of

If there’s a skill of mine that will never be rewarded financially, and in fact only serves as a road

Kids, the day will come when you will ask me about marriage. You will want to know how I was

I’ve lived in ots of different places, dangled many a key from my chain, hefted moving boxes across the ocean,

The score is 53-11, and my oldest son is playing on the Brown team, losing to Red. His team of

“I have an idea,” says the 4-year-old. “I could go back inside you where I lived before I was born.

Do you ever have days in which everyone you see resembles someone you know? Half of my time is spent

I have a thing for upside down cakes and inverted dishes. Possibly this is because they tend to be simple

You know how hearing a song can transport you to another time, a specific day, a season, or a person?

A collection of recent questions from the kids: When you are alone during the day and I’m at preschool, are

Apparently, I am not alone in my need for quick yet satisfying lunches. As a result, I’m sharing another 5-minute

When I’m deep into my writing grooves, which happens only on Wednesdays when my husband is home with the kids,

Faulkner wrote “between grief and nothing, I will take grief.” Given the choice, I would choose chocolate chip cookies. If

I am ready for the big game! That exclamation point makes it seem as though I am actually excited about

At my cousin’s 100th birthday party (they are each 50, so had a combined party), I was called up to

In Italy, the kids and I were barefoot, looking for a bathroom inside a seaside shack. “Look, is that underwear?

“Do you make your own honey?” someone asked. I was at a book signing and had finished telling a story

So the kids are talking at dinner, each one suggesting names for bands they haven’t created and which I am

super very so green lots o green top o the morning green I have never been able to think of

Not one, but all four of my kids, have been walking around the house singing. Not that I mind. I’m