The Vons/Pavilions No-Cook Cook-Off Challenge!

It was a hilarious blast of fun, even though I didn’t win. I spent the morning with some other mom bloggers* and the Executive Suite of Vons/Pavilions. We shopped, we “cooked”, we ate each other’s recipes, and generally had a good time. But let me back up. I was invited to participate in this challenge [...]

A Matter Of Desire And Intention

I went to Toys R Us to buy my son a bike. I was very clear with myself (and with the Universe, and anyone else listening) that I had gone there to buy a bike. Not to buy a box with an unassembled bike in it, not to buy a bike that they assembled for [...]

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Get A Pedicure

I have recently been accused of being a dilettant, bourgeois, stay-at-home mom who sits around eating bon-bons and having her nails done, while very occasionally offering up ridiculous suggestions of work other people ought to do on my behalf through my apparently Very Middle Class affectation of writing a blog. Or three. I really didn’t [...]

Back To School And Back To Blogging

Summer blogging hours are over. Time to get into the September groove. It’s been a strange transition back to the school routine; we’re making it up and out the door with no major struggles, even though getting up at 5:30am vs. 8:30am is a large difference. I think the strangeness is in the quiet around [...]