Common Sense From a story on the current Times homepage: "It's not the first time the embassy has urged U.S. business travelers and...

Birdy's Question "If Obama wins the selection, will she get to live in the lighthouse?" That's what we're hoping, sw...

The Little Column that Couldn't Okay, it's our last hurrah: we're off to Wellfleet . If you're on the Cape, look for me, oka...

Preserving So there I am, just scrolling around the Lehman's (aka How to Be Laura Ingalls Wilder if She Had Been Amish) website, looking...

Zucchinews Dear ones, I knew I could count on you! I am compiling your recipes, and will report back as I try them. All those casseroles are...

On t-shirt skirts, not being a control freak, etc. Hello, dear friends out there! I hope you are well and that your stems are strong in this...

Putting the "pill" back in "pilgrim". . . Hello, dear friends! I'm mad, because I wanted to write a long, languorous...

THOSE ARE MICHAEL'S TOES (Not that mine are such paragons of loveliness, but they do have something a little less Hobbit-like about them...

Toes My latest wondertime columns are here , here , and here. Did you think that maybe I'd drowned in my neti pot? Do you think that e...

Kerchoo. Dear ones. The only excuse I can think of for my delinquency is the fact that my body's every drop of fluid has drained into my...

Ode to Dr. Seuss and Powdered Buttermilk I don't mean to brag and I don't mean to boast, said Peter T. Hooper, but speaking of toast...

Cusp Season Here's how I know it's the season between seasons: I wrote about posole just a mere couple of weeks ago, but by the time...

2 more things I was kidding, about 19 years. It's still only 18. That was my little joke about how long it had been since I last wrote. ...

19 Michael and I celebrated our 19 th anniversary. 19! I can't believe it's been a whole year since I wrote! The subtitle for the l...

18 Michael and I celebrated our 18th anniversary yesterday. 18 years! As you know, or don't know and have perhaps wondered about, or rev...

Pizza That's what I'm doing. Making pizza for a wondertime food piece I'm working on. And oh it is good pizza. But oh there is f...

A Whole Lot of Nothing Hey, thanks for the excellent armchair holiday gorging. It was fabulous and fat-free! Except for all the bourbon-peca...

Identity Politics and Acne Oh, really, this is my perfect life, that one string of comments could tackle both of these issues simultaneously...

Jew eat yet? It's funny timing to log on today and see that there's a small storm brewing in the comments about the Jew thing, since...

Foil Turkey If my digital camera didn't always pull that Taxi Driver "You talkin ' to me?" routine every time I tried to u...