We started our spring planting today! Our garden is tiny – about a 6’x6′ area of ground reclaimed from the crabgrass in front of our apartment.…

Ok, let me explain. I’ve never felt the need for a tea cozy. I mean, I do drink tea, but usually it’s boiled water poured directly…

I have loved this little table ever since my dad gave it to me for my 11th birthday. He had jerry-rigged it a bit, tilting the…

Tonight’s soup was a delicious vegan gumbo, made with 4 different kinds of greens from chef and author Bryant Terry. I found the recipe here. You…

I wish I could convey in blog format the incredible sweetness of the air here. I don’t want to rub it in, for those of you…

It’s spring, and I am completely over my clothes. Bored, bored, bored. But my unsympathetic husband just stares at me incredulously when I stand in front…

It’s spring, and I am completely over my clothes. Bored, bored, bored. Unfortunately, I’m also feeling rather broke, broke, broke, and not too inclined to shop.…

As I’ve mentioned in a couple earlier posts, our kitchen regularly gets turned into a laboratory for various bath and beauty products, and recently Dave and…

Okay, this is the last soup recipe for a while. I promise other non-soup projects soon! But as long as I’m making up these recipes, I…