Summer, Finally Thank you so much: for the clam shack recs (Bob's in Kittery! Awesome, Kiki, thanks. And, Karen, the Clam Shack in Kenne...

We interrupt this quinoa special with a word from our sponsor, The Bacon Lady. I know, it's a little helter-skelter...

Baby Doll Hello, hello! How patient you've been. We are in full summer mode around here, which means our annual trips around the great N...

Ranch Dressing and Father's Day My ranch dressing recipe is up over at family.com. Which has nothing to do, not really, with our celebra...

There is an excellent recipe for ribs over at family.com: it takes a long time, but it does this quite independently with almost no hand-ho...

June Hello, dear friends! I hope this Tuesday finds you well and happy. I am writing with a couple of new food columns over at family.com. I...

More Spring! The spring is so fully here that it is starting to be gone. One evening our dogwood looked like this: And then in the morning, ...

Asparagus and Salmon New recipes are here and here. You guys were so funny and nice about Ben's Mad Lib. I read him some of the comments...

Six and Nine Do you ever come upon little things that just so perfectly capture who your children are at this exact moment? Like this cozy l...

Books Okay, I am late to link over to family.com, so let me start there. Whole-wheat Pasta with Chickpeas and Lemon. This is one of those r...

Happy Passover! Happy Easter! Recipe for one fabulous egg dish here , and another here . Hope you have fun hiding the matzo or the eggs--or ...

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...