I don't think it happened to me until I started baking cupcakes.  But maybe I never did anything serially until I started baking cupcake...

I understand now why Eskimos have so many words for snow.*  Sure, I understood before, but that was purely academic.  Now, my understanding ...

I don't watch American Idol .  I think I've seen it a few times over the years it's been on TV, and while I found it oddly fasc...

I'm a Friday night grocery shopper.  After the dinner has been eaten, the dishes are washed, the kids are clean and in bed, I head out...

The other day, during a meeting in which we reviewed the course offerings for the spring term (yes, really, all of them), it became obvious...

I was given a FitBit, courtesy of Best Buy, for running the BlogHer 5K this year.  Lest you call me a hypocrite , let me be clear: I would h...

Just a little more than ten years ago, I visited South Africa with a study tour from my graduate school of education.  As I've mentioned...

A few weeks ago, I noticed that the potato which had been living in the bowl on my counter had started to sprout.  At first, I was annoyed. ...

Each month, my yoga teacher focuses on a different asana to deepen our practice, and this month's theme was hanumanasana .  Hanuman, acc...

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be self-centered.  It's kind of a sticky wicket, isn't it?  You're s...

It's the part of February that I hate: the intermediate space between the holidays (even if we're counting the Hallmark holiday of V...

Each month, my good friend and fabulous blogger Kathy Benson, who writes (among other places!) at Bereaved and Blessed hosts a blog hop an...

So I turned 39 yesterday.  It was, in many ways, an ordinary day.  Little or no fanfare, no dinner at a fancy restaurant, just good wishes....

Despite my love of the harvest, and the falling leaves, and the apples and squash, and even the raking, I don't love November. It'...

Noon on a rainy Tuesday.  The towtruck pulled up in front of my neighbor's driveway and began to slide the bed back, inclining it to the...