Wild Weather Last night thunder ripped across the sky and the trees shook down to their roots and the rain pelted the greening world and I t...

Vernal Equinox Oh don't you love the spring? And the word vernal ? It just has the greenest sound to it, even though that's probably...

Who knew That I looked like a cross between Abe Vigoda and Steve Landesberg in Barney Miller ? Here is Birdy's drawing: Three faces are ...

I Won the "The World's Most Beautiful Readers" contest, and my prize was you. I don't know how to describe the experience ...

The Face of Six Birdy is 6 today. Birdy. My baby. Lots of you were pregnant at the same time as me, and you are doubtless feeling this too, ...

I Thought You'd Never Ask! Anne Russell has kindly indulged me by asking after the puzzle. Oh, this old thing ? This thing that represen...

Happy Spring! Okay, it's not really spring. But I have been repeating, "Look at the gorgeous light!" all week like a Pollyann...

Romance Oh my gosh, remember Birdy's valentines? Ben was just reminiscing about them and we got to laughing all over again. It seems li...

Thank You As always, thank you. Your indignation over Wondertime's ending was just what I needed. I even forwarded it to all the folks t...

Silver Linings I know I can be kind of a Polyanna girl. But this morning? Our car was frozen to the driveway like it was in one of those Cra...

A Long Time Coming Don't worry, I haven't gone all unromantic on you. I was going to post a photo of the ballroom dancing (oh those ...

New Recipes Gosh, I'm sorry I haven't written here in so long! I've been really, really busy. But I do have two new recipes up a...

Leftovers Have your holidays been marvelous? Ours have. I have hardly even noticed the wax from the menorah candles splashing onto my freshl...

Happy Everything to You Dear ones, there are new columns up at wondertime : Dinner Beans, for an unphotogenically humble meal, and Maple Sno...

Vanilla Dear ones. A very fun recipe for vanilla extract is up here, at wondertime . Can we get a running list over there of your favorite r...

Welcome back , dear friends. I have written about carrot salad, here , and--if you didn't get to it last week--about cranberry upside-do...

Veggies and Dip Wouldn't it be funny to put out a huge bowl of whole root vegetables with your dish of dip? Just to see what people woul...

Sweets for the Sweet Okay, so I can't resist telling you that in the print edition of December's Wondertime magazine, there are seve...

I just spent 17 or so minutes trying to photoshop this picture so that it would look like I was on a wild ride with Barack Obama, because I...

Tofu Hello! Thank you all for your ongoing support, even those of you who are offering it only grudgingly or with great, sighing crankiness....