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 [...]

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 [...]

The other night after dinner, I had these remains:  5 slices grilled bread, 2 ears of boiled white corn, and a few broiled tomatoes. Alone on their plates, they looked quite lonely and unspectacular, and I figured they’d stay that way if I put them in the fridge.  So I made a savory bread pudding, [...]

Went to Pike Place Market with the kids this morning.  Yancey’s at the station, and a passerby offered to take a photo of us. After 14 years as Seattle residents, this is our first picture with the pig.  When Wyatt and and his best friend Oscar were toddlers, Yancey took them to the market on [...]

Sorry, those of you who remain indifferent to pizza.  Here’s the latest Sunday version.  Three guesses what it’s topped with. Sarah’s leftover grilled peppers!!  The most exciting thing about this photo, though, is the vase of lilacs that Yancey and Wyatt stole for me on Mother’s Day morning.  My mom is Queen of Lilac Stealing, [...]