All I can think about these days is taking a nap and whether or not there is any chance I’ll be able to get some undisturbed time. Ironically, the more I need the undisturbed time, the less likely my children are to give it to me. We had friends for lunch yesterday and I was so exhausted I went to… Read More
Oh my love my darling I’ve hungered for your touch a long lonely time and time goes by so slowly and time can do so much are you still mine? I need your love, Godspeed your love to me. Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea to the open arms of the sea lonely rivers sigh ‘wait for… Read More
My belle soeur brought me some topinambour last harvest, which was something I had never heard of. It was so delicious that I ended up ordering it again from the store. When I looked up the translation it turns out to be Jerusalem artichoke, which I had heard of but never prepared before last summer. We’re having it tonight puréed… Read More
My favorite people to spend time with are the ones who laugh, who make me laugh. They are the ones who can drop everything at a moment’s notice to grieve with me, to cry with me, to listen to me, but who generally see the world as I do: 10% sorrowful and 90% ridiculous. I love to laugh – at… Read More
I’m home. In France. It’s 1:00 in the morning and my kids are still up (when I had hoped they had the sense to cry themselves to sleep after I screamed at them). I just couldn’t take it anymore. I mean, don’t they know they have school tomorrow? Don’t they get that they have to resist the jetlag and re-train… Read More
I’ve neglected all of your blogs because I don’t have two hours to rub together to actually go visit them, but we’re nearing the end of our US trip (we fly out tomorrow night) and then I’ll be back in your lives. In the meantime I want to tell you just how much fun we’re having seeing all of our… Read More
