Of course, Molly threw her own 21st birthday party. She'd been waiting to celebrate this day for years. "I just want to be able to go where my family and friends go," she said, having grown up the youngest in both her family and her grade. Saturday night in Minneapolis her friends and family went [...]
It's 3:45 on a Thursday afternoon and I am skidding frantically across my kitchen floor. Various splotches of balsamic vinegar drip down my dress in an undignified pattern, my hair Medusas itself into wild coils and I Can't. Find. The. Salt! I have overbooked myself once again and am simultaneously simmering gyro meat in one [...]
I open the side door of our house and a waft of good smells greets me -- the yeasty goodness of fresh baked bread, Sunday-dinner richness of balsamic baked chicken, exotic tang of Croatian sausages, sweet goodness of blueberry tarts. Molly B is in the house and, like Beauty and the Beast's Be Our Guest, [...]
One of the best things about your children growing up and leaving home is that every moment you get to spend with them thereafter feels like a gift. Another best thing is seeing them stretch themselves in ways you could not even have imagined. I enjoyed both when my daughter Molly came home this past [...]
My youngest daughter turns 20 today and we marked the occasion earlier this week by sharing a couple of pints of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and a fascinating episode of Chef's Table. Maybe we should have met the occasion of a young woman exiting her teens and an old mother marking the official end [...]
