Author: Calamity Jane
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No Frills Five: A Soft-Core Challenge
When I first started reading about people challenging themselves with “No-Spending” weeks, I thought it absurd. A week? Give me a break. Who cares? You go stock up on your groceries, and then are so proud when you keep your wallet at home for a week? Big, fat deal. But, I have often fallen prey…
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Kitchens, Part 4: Micro-Zones or “I Can’t Be the Only Whatever I Am in the Room”
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I think a lot. It annoys even me. Or maybe, mostly me. A blog is the logical extension of a brain like mine. In fact, I’ve always had a running blog in my own head, from back waaaaay before there was such a thing as blogs (from…
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I Heart Coffee
Dear god is that some divine elixir. I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet my daughter’s Night Waking. Yes, those words deserve to be capitalized. I don’t mean she wakes and cries out, needs comforting, then goes back to sleep (though she does that plenty too). No, I mean she sometimes wakes up in the night,…
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Kitchens, Part 3: Work Zones
For you kitchen geek out over-analyzers left in the readership, let’s move on to my Work Zones. Here’s the three things I do most in my kitchen (besides dishes) — cut veggies, stand at the stove, and mix up baked goodies. Borrowing from permaculture design, we’ll call my work areas “zones” and assign them numbers…
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Learning to Talk
Toddler is standing on the back steps, looking in at me. “Mama!” She says excitedly, “I want my cock!” ummmm…. “Your……. Clock?” “No! My cock!” “Your…..” I’m wracking my brain, “…Talk?” “No! I want my co-CK!” With an almost German throat clearing sound on the “ck.” At that point I can’t stand it anymore and…
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