Guess who started kung fu classes?
He’s been asking to start studying kung fu for at least a year now. This past weekend we signed him up for classes at a fantastic school. He’s pretty psyched. Pre-babies and pre-blog, I studied kung fu. I was a …
Tube meats, costumes, bad fashion decisions…
Yeah…playing catch-up again with the photos. Behold the wonder that is our family: 1. Like 80% of Portlanders, we woke up to an unexpectedly warm and sunny Sunday a few weeks back and thought, “Pumpkins!” We went to Kruger’s Farm …
Chasing the next novel
I finished my first novel (Drowning Practice) in 2005, before I got pregnant with Thumper. I had the extreme good fortune to spend my first month of that pregnancy at Ragdale, where I had nothing to do but write all …
Pumpkin face
Guess who’s started eating solid food? She’s six months now, sitting up unassisted for a few weeks already, and had been trying to mooch food off my plate constantly. It was time. So far I’ve made her pureed apples, pureed …
We’re still here
Life gets in the way of blogging sometimes, even when it seems like not very much is happening at all. Shall we have some random so I can play catchup a bit? 1. Ladybug has been sitting up unassisted for …
So that “kidney discomfort”?
It was a back ache. And after Billy stretched and rubbed it last night it went away. (How much do I love being married to a physical therapist?!) I guess my feelings about eating meat are still kind of complicated, …
I’ve never been all that good at that moderation thing
Meat! Meat! I LOVE MEAT! Did you know that meat is delicious? And makes you feel like a superhero when you eat it? Hello, protein rush! In the two weeks that I’ve been eating it I’ve tried roasted chicken, burgers, …
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Meanwhile, in the garden…
The fall and winter plants I started in mid-July are now healthy teenagers and have been transplanted into their winter beds, which had previously been the spring beds of the peas and red potatoes. The first bed has Dwarf Siberian …
Last night I ate a chicken’s leg
and I liked it. Yes, you read that right. Yes, you’re at the right blog. Last night, for the first time in nearly 22 years, I ate meat. I ate it on purpose, and I liked it. I became a …