Lulu

Dictionary: lu-lu (loo loo) any remarkable person or thing For whatever reason—as in, I have no idea—when I was pregnant with our second babe—gender unknown—we needed an in-utero nickname for her or him—him—and so we called the bump...

Beautiful Boys

Beautiful Boy was the overly ambitious second book I took on vacation last year (the book itself wasn’t overly ambitious, the notion that I might read two books during one vacation with four kids was). During the post-school, pre-nap bottle with the toddler, I...

Summer in Spring

Even though there seems to have been some spring summer confusion this glorious, often steamy May, what either season seems to agree upon is this: local food has arrived. Amidst the floral explosion this spring brought, the early green vegetables unearthed themselves...