After much last-minute stress and anxiety, the new issue of Mosaic Minds went live this morning, right on schedule. As usual, we’ve got lots of great stuff there, so go check it out! For my book column I made up a New Year’s reading list with ten books that I resolve to read this year,… Read More Saturday

When you ask your two-year-old what he’s doing there at the keyboard and he answers, “E-mail.”

I’ve been reading so-called “infertility blogs” lately. I’ll grant that’s a bit on the odd side, given my super-fertile status, and I’m not altogether sure myself how to explain it. It all started with Chez Miscarriage. I had been noticing it for months on the blogrolls of other blogs I read, but I had never… Read More Wednesday

I had a strange dream the other night. Actually, as far as dreams go it was pretty ordinary, and I realized only when I woke up and thought a little about it that it was strange. It started out as a standard “oh-my-god-we-have-a-chemistry-test-and-I-haven’t-studied” high school dream. I have those dreams relatively frequently, and it’s always,… Read More Subconscious

It pains me to admit it, but my husband is a much better microwave-popcorn-popper than I am. I pride myself on my cooking skills and generally take it as a personal affront whenever he tries to horn in on whatever I’m doing (he tried to flip my french toast the other day — can you… Read More Jolly Time!

Last night we watched an installment of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, the BBC series based on Elizabeth George’s detective novels. I’m a fan of the books, and I ordinarily enjoy the television program, but last night’s show, If Wishes Were Horses, annoyed me no end. All was going along swimmingly until it was revealed that… Read More A not-so-short rant

As I frequently do, I got a craving this afternoon for salted pretzels so I put them on the grocery list I sent with Olof when he went to the store. He came home pretzel-less, explaining that the store had been out of them. Just now, a couple of hours later, I looked up at… Read More For want of a pretzel

I just read on CNN.com that Andrea Yates’s conviction was overturned and that she’ll be tried again. We can only hope for that poor woman to get a fair trial with a more compassionate verdict next time around.

Yesterday afternoon I got a sudden hankering for sweet rolls and decided to whip up a batch. At first I was going to go with the old stand-by, Swedish kanelbullar, but I started thinking that I can have those anytime and that I was more in the mood for American-style sweet rolls. I briefly contemplated… Read More Lime Sublime

Much to my own surprise, I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to the idea of having this baby at home. I’ve always considered homebirths unncessarily risky, but after having known a number of people who had positive homebirth experiences, I’m slowly but surely changing my mind. I’m not even sure, actually, if a… Read More Home vs. Hospital