I’ve been moving some routines around in the kitchen. I’ve picked out Samin Nosrat as a teacher—in the most intuitive way. I love her cookbooks. They are beautiful and teach me so much and I enjoy them. My friend Sarah told me about her pandemic podcast Home Cooking and it is the light, chatty podcast […]

I always warn people that work with Micah that he tells totally believable but completely false stories sometimes. Once, in middle school, a teacher walked him out after school and remarked to me, “I had no idea you were Jewish!” I, startled, said that we were not actually Jewish and she looked shocked. “Micah told […]

On my way out of the bookstore, I caught the attention of the owner. A few weeks ago, he helped me pick a book for my oldest son, who is intellectually disabled and autistic, and my son had loved the gift. The owner walked me around the store, asking me questions about my son, and […]

We got home from our holiday trip today. We pulled in today to a slightly musty smell (our bonus daughter stayed here the whole time; it wasn’t an empty house. Does the house just smell and I’m used to it??) and a stack of boxes. On the drive, I pointed out the rest area where […]