Charlie was born on a Friday that happened to fall on the thirteenth of July, which means, popular superstition to the contrary, I will al...

Happy birthday  to Charlie. A prince among boys.

We have been gorging on cherries, black caps , watermelon , cucumbers, and green beans lately, and I'm not even a little bit sorry. F...

I was unreasonably excited to find that the grocery store in the Small City had seeded watermelon in stock last week. My strong opinions on...

This will probably sound ridiculous, but I have made a mental resolution to have more fun this summer. This has been a very stressful sum...

Unfortunately, I couldn't entirely get out of the kitchen, but I sure did my best to stay out of it as much as I could. Friday Shor...

Eating snow peas picked from the garden . . . Playing in the woodchuck wading pool (a.k.a., the utility sled) . . . And ...