A comment my mother made recently about my kids never eating Twinkies or Mountain Dew made me think: I come off as a totally insufferable f...

I don't cook with my kids. For them, all the time. But with them? Nope. The reason for this, as anyone with children will tell you, i...

Yesterday I went into the vegetable garden to water some volunteer tomato plants we had recently transplanted to a better spot, and a coupl...

I'm not much of a drinker. (Um, many posts to the contrary. Cough.) I don't stock bottles of wine to drink with dinner, or beer fo...

One of my great interests and joys in life is foraging for food that tastes just as good as--or better than-- anything that can be purchase...

Okay! School has been successfully concluded*, as has the family visit. We've taken the first of the summer road trips to Blackrock and ...

I never buy cereal. Never. Ever. It's not that I don't like it. In fact, I like it quite a bit. So do my children. It's more ...