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We do a lot of “experiments” around here. Mainly we blow the tops off bottles. Sometimes we make rockets; sometimes we use bare cork. The basic ingredients are usually the same – 2 tbs baking soda and 1/4 c to 1/2 c vinegar. I say usually because Will’s been listening to our govt and seems […]

Will’s report from Tahoe is that “Grandma said ‘stupid’ and ‘damnit’ when the door slammed on her. She used all the bad words. Those aren’t nice things to say.” No they aren’t. And we expected so much more from Grandma!

Our nanny’s sister flew in from Nepal to take care of her last week and has convinced her to come back to Nepal to rest. I’m pretty sad about this because it is hard to find people I actually like to take care of my babies. Sylvie is a little bit too young for most […]

We’re spoiled. We can walk less than a mile to a street that spans a 1.5 miles and is lined on both sides with great restaurants the entire stretch. One of those restaurants, Fonda, is a common date night haunt because the service is good, the drinks are interesting and the food is excellent. So […]

Thank God it is Friday. Our Nanny has been ill all week and what we imagined would be the calmest and cleanest week we’ve had in 4 years was actually one of the harder, dirtier weeks. I’ve swept up a kazillion dried pastas and peppercorns from our many tea parties this week, and still I’m […]

They are born womanizers. I was wearing a skirt at the grocery store the other day, and Will kept brushing his hand up against my legs and falling on the floor to look up my skirt. I told him to knock it off, eventually tossing him in the cart, where he blurts out, “You wearing […]

Thanks to people like Michael Pollan (author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (Penguin Press, 2006) and “In Defense of Food” (Penguin Press, 2008)), CSAs have become a viable option to keep our local small organic growers in business. We belonged to Eatwell Farms for a little over a year, not renewing as we received a few […]

Well, actually, it’s all of California. Oh to wake to find your recently washed car covered in fine grains of ash! Our local liberal media, SFGate, published a map of the significant fires in California, as identified by the Governator’s office (and actually, that they borrowed from the Govnr’s site). As of this morning, I […]

I knew we’d eventually find ways to make our grey water recycling more efficient.

my friend Cindy had a great suggestion for how to keep track of your independent child in highly populated areas – tie a balloon to the kid. (I swear this is the last post today.)