Photo by KickpleatI loved reading your winter survival strategies (and plan to adopt many of them). Thank you. As long as winter lasts, I’m going to start off the week by talking about what helps me get through the season. Feel free to add your suggestions and thoughts. I’m sure we can… Read More
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January 2011
The Beauty of Different
This is my friend Karen. Clearly I did not take this picture—Karen snapped it herself—but if you’re anything like me, the first thought that comes to mind when you see this would be: That lady is beautiful. Beauty and Karen seem to go together—though perhaps not in the way you… Read More
Adam’s Enchiladas: New Baby Dinner
My sister-in-law and her sister are clever women. Neither of them are terribly interested in cooking, but they both managed to marry men who are. My brother does the lion’s share of cooking and grocery shopping for his family, and I recently discovered that his brother-in-law Adam is a great… Read More
Kasha (Buckwheat) to Warm the Kishkes
When I was a little girl I had a Jewish grandfather. He lived in Florida—as most Jewish grandfathers do—but every once in a while he came to visit us in California. When he arrived, he proceeded to complain about the hills he called “mountains” and the weather. Mostly it was… Read More
Mighty Summit: Empowerment
When I was a kid, I went to a wilderness summer camp where the focus was on backpacking (that’s me, on the left). It hadn’t been my idea to go, my mother made me, but over the years I fell in love with climbing mountains. At first it was scary… Read More
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