Sometimes, all it takes is an abundance of Katherines and Mollys and Eds to turn a drizzly October weekend into something so enjoyable you hardly notice when the best franchise in the whole NFL plays one of its worst football games in recent memory. Yikes. But, even the growing cacophony of one annoying but well-deserved [...]
I traveled 442 miles round trip to have dinner with 75% of my kids Monday night and it was worth each of the 482 minutes I spent on highway 10. I’m not really a numbers person anyway. I am a person who loves glorious summer evenings, and smorgasbords of wood-fired pizza, and sweet bites of [...]
We had as much fun saying the name of Molly's Christmas dessert this year as we had eating it (and I'm pretty sure I ate more of it than anyone). This year, she combined her love of baking and trees with her passion for foraging and came up with a Buche de Noel that included [...]
“I’m so excited for you to meet my trees,” my daughter Molly said as she greeted me in the front yard of her new apartment. We had come to Minneapolis to help her move, but she had already taken care of, well, everything, except the assembly of a new bed and she did most of [...]
On a kitchen table that had seen so many culinary triumphs (mostly at the hands of my offspring), my daughter Molly notched another big one as the last hours ticked away from a tumultous year. Ignoring, or maybe inspired by, all the tumult around her, Molly sat down and serenely rolled, cut, stuffed and folded [...]