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The Teen Age ~ Not As Wretchedly Awful as Led To Believe

What I’m about to say might sound as naive as the mother of a freshly minted 1-year-old. At a playgroup, she declares toddlers are nothing but wide-eyed sweetness with knee dimples and a bendable will. She says it because her toddler has never flushed her watch down the toilet or had a meltdown of solar-flare […]

Can you bake better than a 6th grader?

Last Christmas, Ryley learned a critically important lesson in baking when he was assigned to make and bring 2 dozen homemade cookies to a school event.

He made them. They were delicious. But first, he had to learn people prefer their cookies without so much protein.

Ryley, one year ago, not […]

My Thanksgiving with Mick Jagger

The turkey and the stuffing were diced into tidy brown blocks. They sat side-by-side, looking like bricks for a dainty but foolhardy construction project.

The mashed potatoes were scooped by hand like ice cream. Someone four floors below, in a basement kitchen, released the dull white lukewarm globe over a tray with a flourish of […]