The Grass Widow's Diary

We spent the past week in Oregon, walking on foggy beaches, eating the best marionberry scones in the universe , and generally decompressing...

Forget all you have ever known about "ambrosia" as dessert - you know, mini marshmallows, pineapple, something creamy holding it a...

Some friends and I were talking recently about having simple "house rules" for kids to follow. Their children are much younger tha...

Every time I make pulled pork I screw it up. Every. Single. Time. Except today, which is truly a miraculous happening. Here's the re...

Gypsy, our half-feral two year old Boxer, has the chest of a heavyweight champion and the bark of a 5lb toy dog. The boys are embarrassed by...

We didn't do much to celebrate the Fourth - it seems odd to be off in the middle of the week for one day, frankly. But we did cook, as u...

Make no mistake: if He rose at all
 it was as His body;
 if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
 reknit, the amino acids r...

Here is the latest addition to the Grass Widow Household, the no-longer-wandering Gypsy. Two weeks ago she was in a kill shelter when Lone S...