I ask myself these questions: should all of the time I spent the last six weeks baking this myriad of Christmas Cookies for neighbors and friends and husband and self and taking pictures of these …
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The Cookies of my Labor
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The Mother’s Prayer
….that you grow big and strong but small, smaller even, so you can stay in my arms forever that you grow autonomous and also need me always that you go places but never leave that …
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Christmas Break
Morrison: Hey, so I was thinking it’d nice if you took some time off from working over the holidays. Me:….what? No. Why? Morrison: okay Scrooge. Because it’s Christmas? And that’s what’s normal regular people do? …
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The Optimist’s Cookbook
I Care Deeply Press proudly announces the release of the Optimist’s Cookbook. Recipes include a French Toast Casserole to put out when everyone is spiraling but you’re privately trusting it will be hard, and there …
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do butter
I shared this on Instagram already but this really bears repeating: yesterday I accidentally dropped and shattered this butter ornament in a gift shop. It’s not the nicest thing to do to a small business …
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The Cookie Box
As I’ve been circling Christmas traditions in my head, to land on some for Joseph, I’ve stumbled across a new one for MYSELF. It’s at once selfish and giving which is my favorite kind of …
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inherited Joy
Me, to Joe: Guess what, Joe! It’s Christmas time! You’re going to love Christmas! Joe: okay, but what is it? Me: Christmas is a beautiful, wonderful, cozy time of year in which we bake, decorate, …
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The Unwigging
Please see below for a formal list of reasons I can’t stop watching The Undoing, a very smart and quite stunning HBO limited series about an affluent Manhattan woman whose life unravels, or as one …
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HAVE BABY, WILL TRAVEL
Having a pandemic quarantine baby means you really, REALLY don’t go anywhere. I literally can’t even fathom taking him to a Store. It took us weeks to even take the dude for a walk. So …
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Peak 2020
This picture, of a commemorative F**K 2020 Christmas ornament that I mailed my Mother in Law, that broke into pieces in transit and fell from the envelope like the world’s saddest confetti, IS 2020. OPTIMISM; …