Last night, we had finally gotten the miserably hot kids to bed and I was sitting with my feet in the kiddie pool drooling over my just-arrived issue of Saveur.  Our neighbors (different than the ones I wrote about here), an multi-generational Chinese family with two boys (7 and 11) were having a party in their [...]

It was 103 in Seattle today.  Record-breaking misery.  Wyatt came wandering into our room at 3 a.m., all hot, sweaty, and disoriented. He slept between us, spreading out as fully as possible, until I was hanging onto the edge, his fist in my face.  I moved to the couch, and got a little sleep until [...]

Yancey and I had a very fortunate run-in with a Penn Cove Mussel truck yesterday.  We were waiting for our minivan to get its oil changed (Yes, we have a mini-van.  My friend Jackie always used to say that minivans run on libido–they suck it right out of you) and on our way to Pike [...]

Take a chubby, unspectacular half cucumber that’s pining away in your produce drawer.  Peel and seed it, cut it into chunks. Find a few triangles of cold watermelon in there, too, and cut those into chunks. Go out in your garden and pick leaves of mint and basil.  Pull off the 3 Sungold tomatoes that [...]

A couple weeks ago, I had a chicken salad sandwich at Oddfellows (my office) on Capitol Hill.  I ate lunch at 10:30.  That’s a mom for you.  I had gotten up early and done a million things already, so it surely felt like lunchtime.  At the counter placing my order, none of the breakfast things [...]