Rumbledethumps and Writing Tips

For Christmas, I got two new vegetarian cookbooks:  Moosewood Restaurant Favorites and Quick-Fix Vegetarian.  (The hubby and I are not vegetarians, but we eat a lot of meat-less meals at home.)  I love both books.  I’ve already made the lemon and herb baked tofu and the “rumbledethumps” from the Moosewood book, as well as theContinue reading “Rumbledethumps and Writing Tips”

Oh the Thinks That We Think

Last night I babysat my little friend D, who is almost four.  (Last March I took care of D for three days while her parents were in the hospital having her little brother, W.  You can read about my great pseudo-parenting skills here and my less-great, thoroughly-exhausted pseudo-parenting skills here.) In the middle of anContinue reading “Oh the Thinks That We Think”

The Writing Life

I am a writer. It took me a while to be able to say that without cringing or feeling sheepish or following it up with, “Well sort of.”  But now I can own it, in all its vague, not-yet-fully-formed glory. Two years ago this week, I sat down in my principal’s office at the schoolContinue reading “The Writing Life”