One moment, I was dashing between my day job and a client, and the next, as I bent down to pick up the garden hose, a sharp agave leaf pierced straight through my eyeball. Even as I stood up, holding my eye, reassuring myself that “I’m okay, I’m okay,” it’s simply my ...
Now, I remodel my house (recent bathroom project), labor on landscaping, and generally enjoy working with my hands (famously failed pirate ship project). I’ve written about the unique and exciting experience of putting building materials in front of my students. From Building Bridges, using ...
Nowhere else in your house can they truly get away from things because there will always be people stepping over and around them which is not what they want when looking for peace and quiet or sometimes sleep. A crate provides them the security they’re after when looking for down time and...
I work hard to put into perspective that this is a struggle I have, just like anyone else (we’re all a work in progress). This particular struggle happens to show on the outside. I have learned that being honest with myself, without being cruel, has given me some agency in my ...
work colleagues, but when I showed up at the office one morning without my wedding band and nothing but heartbreak in my eyes, he stood up and said we were going to breakfast. I don’t recall anything in particular that he said or didn’t say, but it was exactly the right thing to...
My husband and I had two sons. Religion was a debating point. Should we send them to some neutral non-Catholic, non-Jewish (We never even considered Jewish, to be honest) House of religion On Sundays? Do they need to know about religion ...
I’ll mention that I felt “oppression” in the house. Including brain shutting down. Now there were physical reasons for it, but it was more than that. Because once in a while I lost my mind and tossed a few grains of blessed salt down each vent. And for about a week it was bles...
If you have a nude (or semi nude) model taking random poses like legs in an elegant position and hands lifting their hair you will have to do a bit more of detective work (that’s my experience, not what Glenn says but I think that’s what he means). What is the gesture of this...
In year two, I slowed things down and added in my own recipes. The third year was an even bigger change, with more and more of my own recipes. I also wrote and sold three cookbooks in year three! I have Martha and this blog to thank for that! Along the way I’ve made some ...
“I risked my life in combat to preserve our nation,” Hunt said Monday night. “There's another man who is putting it all on the line to save our nation."