Tag: parenting
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Whole Grain Pumpkin Bread & Parenting Pre-teens
My bedroom door swings open. “Jamie, please knock next time,” my husband tells our 12 1/2 year old. A shrug. “So, you want to know something weird?” This is one of Jamie’s lead-ins. He appears most nights, often remembering to knock, after the other kids are asleep. Sometimes he has a specific question (“Can you… Read more
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Maple-Polenta Southern Biscuits & Biscuits & Cuddling (Vegan Option, too!)
Confession: I am not southern. I am not even semi-southern. But I harbor deep fantasies about being whisked away and made to eat cheese grits, collard greens, and biscuits. In fact, last night I ate an entire bunch of collard greens. ON my own. I *might* have had to sleep in the attic due to… Read more
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Black Olive and Caper Tapenade & Proportional Happiness
When I go to Mexico to visit my old friend, Cristina, I like to help her milk goats, eat the cheese she makes from those goats, and wander into the market to buy hand-made blue gorditas and cactus for salad. But what I really love is buying spoons. They are made locally, don’t cost much,… Read more
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Mummy, why are you blushing? AKA I have a past…
You might be one of the six people who read my first novel, Liner Notes. If you were, then you know how I soundtrack much of my life. I use “soundtrack” as a verb because it’s an active process for me; I’ve always navigated using music as the backdrop, much the same way film uses… Read more