If you are taking newsletter topic requests, would you please share you other favorite picture books from when your kids were little? I have new baby and many friends with young babes and would love love immensely love this insight!
I just finished Sandwich! I loved it. I told my mom to read it and will tell many other people! I am so curious what book the line about ‘bobbing up and down in a pond with my mom’ came from, if it did come from a children’s book in reality? Wait also in case you’re reading this and you really do like the idea of recommending children’s books to your readers, would you also consider recommending other (than Sandwich) rich, wise books starring women at a similar age/time of life as Rocky? <3 Will stop treating this comment section as my own personal AMA with you now.
We lived in an older home (built in the early 30s) in Lincoln, NE for 17 years. We could lock the front door from the inside, but could never get the it locked with the key from the front porch. We walked around the house to the side entrance for 17 years. When it was time to sell, we had a locksmith come out and tinker with the ancient deadbolt. Voila! All fixed! Why did we wait?!
Love your writing. Whenever I start to skip over the directions of one of your recipes, I stop myself and read each line as I know there's humor lurking somewhere between measurements and instructions.
Thank you for saying about your front door. I feel a bit better about our front door (which needs a new lock, as the lock doesn't keep the door shut(!), so it is bolted from the inside and we never use it), but we have only been here 13 years. Maybe we'll do it next year?
So hungry. And cheered by the front door, which is not the same as – but similar to! – my family having a bathroom door that didn't properly lock for 20 years, and all of us just learning to hum while on the toilet instead.
I do love a family-wide picture book misquote. In our fam growing up it was “Let the wild rumpus begin!” Which, I’m sorry Maurice, is simply a superior word to start in this sentence. Anyway, here’s to spring and sobbing.
Completely agree. In fact, until I read your comment, I thought it was "begin"- that's what we put on my mother's 60th bday cake many many years ago, and what appeared on my daughter's high school graduation cake!
You perfectly captured the springtime gratefulness and grief that I also go through. Everything is so stunning and yet I can’t completely enjoy it because I’m already mourning it ending. I love your writing so much!
Oh oh oh, thanks for this one, so good. I’m an English reader and US recipes are always a bit off. Yours are like Laurie Colwin’s; always good to cook, always good to read. Hope you and your family have a wonderful May xxx
this is going to sound like a NYT cooking review, but i am doing a CSA and had a ton of veggies, so i added chard and squash to the asparagus and holy moly!!! incredible. fresh. today i also added a little bit of salmon i had leftover on top of it. thanks for sharing!!
Is there a part in We All Want Impossible Things where someone misattributes that "the first green is gold" quote to another poet? Yes! I think there is! It's the dying friend, right? I just finished Sandwich and thought it was totally sublime by the way. Love your writing!
“If it’s undersalted it will be underdelicious.” T-shirt? Tattoo? ❤️
Ha ha ha! Yes!
If you are taking newsletter topic requests, would you please share you other favorite picture books from when your kids were little? I have new baby and many friends with young babes and would love love immensely love this insight!
Honestly, this makes me want to cry. By which I mean: Yes!!! Thank you for asking.
I just finished Sandwich! I loved it. I told my mom to read it and will tell many other people! I am so curious what book the line about ‘bobbing up and down in a pond with my mom’ came from, if it did come from a children’s book in reality? Wait also in case you’re reading this and you really do like the idea of recommending children’s books to your readers, would you also consider recommending other (than Sandwich) rich, wise books starring women at a similar age/time of life as Rocky? <3 Will stop treating this comment section as my own personal AMA with you now.
Yes I came here to ask where the reading list is of favorite books from when your kids were young! ❤️
We lived in an older home (built in the early 30s) in Lincoln, NE for 17 years. We could lock the front door from the inside, but could never get the it locked with the key from the front porch. We walked around the house to the side entrance for 17 years. When it was time to sell, we had a locksmith come out and tinker with the ancient deadbolt. Voila! All fixed! Why did we wait?!
Love your writing. Whenever I start to skip over the directions of one of your recipes, I stop myself and read each line as I know there's humor lurking somewhere between measurements and instructions.
Ha ha ha, I know you wrote this a month ago, which is when I read it and laughed.
Just realized how much your writing gives my Laurie Colwin vibes. The best. Thank you.
Oooh, that’s a high compliment.
seriously!
Thank you for saying about your front door. I feel a bit better about our front door (which needs a new lock, as the lock doesn't keep the door shut(!), so it is bolted from the inside and we never use it), but we have only been here 13 years. Maybe we'll do it next year?
13 years is NOTHING!
Mug in the colander!! Life changed.
Right?
So hungry. And cheered by the front door, which is not the same as – but similar to! – my family having a bathroom door that didn't properly lock for 20 years, and all of us just learning to hum while on the toilet instead.
Ha ha ha! To drown out the sounds? Or to let people know you were in there?
The latter, although useful for both
I do love a family-wide picture book misquote. In our fam growing up it was “Let the wild rumpus begin!” Which, I’m sorry Maurice, is simply a superior word to start in this sentence. Anyway, here’s to spring and sobbing.
Completely agree. In fact, until I read your comment, I thought it was "begin"- that's what we put on my mother's 60th bday cake many many years ago, and what appeared on my daughter's high school graduation cake!
I thought it was begin too!
You perfectly captured the springtime gratefulness and grief that I also go through. Everything is so stunning and yet I can’t completely enjoy it because I’m already mourning it ending. I love your writing so much!
And now it's JULY!!!! Sob!
Oh oh oh, thanks for this one, so good. I’m an English reader and US recipes are always a bit off. Yours are like Laurie Colwin’s; always good to cook, always good to read. Hope you and your family have a wonderful May xxx
“It’s, like, not a lot of food” — had me cracking up over coffee.
this is going to sound like a NYT cooking review, but i am doing a CSA and had a ton of veggies, so i added chard and squash to the asparagus and holy moly!!! incredible. fresh. today i also added a little bit of salmon i had leftover on top of it. thanks for sharing!!
That made me laugh. Happily, this is not at all "I baked it inside a duck leg and it was TERRIBLE!" vibes.
This would be excellent with some chickpeas, too, I feel…
Kudos for the Frost quote. Also a reminder that "Nothing gold can stay."
Yum!!! But I bet my 10 minutes (NOT a cook) is different than your 10 minutes. (I will make my husband cook this. Like I usually do.)
Is there a part in We All Want Impossible Things where someone misattributes that "the first green is gold" quote to another poet? Yes! I think there is! It's the dying friend, right? I just finished Sandwich and thought it was totally sublime by the way. Love your writing!
Yes, ha ha ha, she thinks it's from the actual author of the Outsiders!