The fall and winter plants I started in mid-July are now healthy teenagers and have been transplanted into their winter beds, which had previously been the spring beds of the peas and red potatoes. The first bed has Dwarf Siberian kale, Nero di Toscana kale, collards, and Apollo broccoli. The second bed has cabbage (I [...]

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and I liked it.
Yes, you read that right. Yes, you’re at the right blog. Last night, for the first time in nearly 22 years, I ate meat. I ate it on purpose, and I liked it.
I became a lacto-ovo vegetarian in 1988, when I was fifteen. My reasons at the time were entirely ethical. I [...]

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I keep taking pictures and then meaning to post them, and then the process of posting a photo via this old computer seems like too much of a chore for the limited time I have, and I don’t do it. And now I find myself with weeks’ and weeks’ worth of stuff I wanted to [...]

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My friend Lisa Unger’s new novel, Fragile, comes out today. I’m very much looking forward to reading it.

The wonderful Caroline Leavitt did a great interview with her here, and Lisa did a guest post on Caroline’s blog here. The guest post is quite a good one, and you should especially read it if you’re surprised [...]

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I guess July was the month of infidelity then, because I’ve finished the three books I set out to read and am moving on.
I wish I could tell you that Madame Bovary was as wonderful as I remembered it being. I can’t tell you that. As you already know if we’re friends on Goodreads (and [...]

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So, those birth photos I posted a while back… It wasn’t to shock you. And it wasn’t an urge to gratuitously share images of someone’s gloved hands inside my abdomen. Really. I thought the photos spoke for themselves. They did, quite clearly, for many of you–particularly those of you who have also had c-sections. But [...]

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Remember how the marauding neighborhood cats and their evil garden-shitting ways destroyed my spinach bed two seasons in a row? And how I swore it had put me off cats forever, that I would never again have a cat myself? Well…yeah.

It turns out that once I no longer needed to fear toxoplasmosis in my cat-contaminated [...]

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I read Anna Karenina for the first time in 1992, in the second semester of my freshman year in college. I loved it, but was never moved to read it a second time. There are a lot of books in the world, after all, and not nearly enough time to get to everything I want [...]

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This pokey old iBook that I’m working on now (see Water Incident in this post for explanation) doesn’t have iPhoto–or any other photo program for that matter–so I can’t get the many photos off my camera to share with you. Or if there is a way to do it, I don’t know how. It’s gonna [...]

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Happy fourth birthday, love bug! You’re my favorite super hero.

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