- My 13 Year Old Daughter’s Back to School Clothes Shopping ListSeptember 7, 2017Our newly minted teenager's funny, crazily self-aware back-to-school shopping list may ring a bell if you've raised — or ever been — a 13-year-old girl.
- 20 Reasons to Toast Mother’s DayMay 12, 2017Big thanks to JaM Cellars for sponsoring this post, and thanks to you for supporting our partners.This Mother’s Day weekend, in the best of all possible worlds and also the actual world, the four of us and my mom are sardine-ing into the car on our way up to Massachusetts to celebrate the fact that my...
- Ira Glass on MarriageFebruary 17, 2013Today I ran to last week's Valentine's Day episode of This American Life. As if you might need another reason to adore Ira Glass, how about this quote from the episode? A while back, Ira's message to aspiring creatives struck a chord with me and a lot of others. When I heard these thoughts on marriage, I had the same feeling. Namely, that I love what he has to say so much that I kinda want to eat it with a spoon and make it part of me forever.
- Books in Brief: Parents Need to Eat, Too by Debbie KoenigMay 11, 2012THE TAKEAWAY. Parents Need to Eat, Too is a smart, witty, dare I say indispensable resource for parents clawing their way toward their “new normal” in the months after a baby is born. A great Mother’s Day or any-day gift for expecting and recently besieged…sorry, I mean blessed…parents. THE DIRTY DETAILS. Big batches, nap-time cooking, meals you...
- Thanks, yo.November 24, 2011So there are some minor not-so-great parts of celebrating Thanksgiving in England, like, ohhh, the fact that Thanksgiving does not exist in England. There are good parts though, too, like the fact that at approximately 8 a.m. New York time, I had already returned from the gym, made stuffing, poured myself a glass of champagne,...
