Christina M | September 30, 2004
Back when my daughter was two years old and I was single parenting three kids, we went to Thanksgiving dinner at my sister’s house. Her family had set a delightful table, including gold-leaf decorated place cards. Each bore a name on the outside, and when unfolded displayed a sentence or two of what the writers […]
Christina M | September 16, 2004
This morning as I opened the fridge to get out breakfast, I spotted a pot of broth there, and flashed back to a meal I enjoyed a number of years ago. I was at my sister’s house, and she’d made what she referred to as “Musgo Soup.†When I asked what that was, she explained: […]
Christina M | September 1, 2004
Today I have a play date with someone I haven’t spent time with in a long time. Three months, to be specific. Myself. It’s the first day of school, and though I love my children, I don’t love the chaos of summer vacation. It isn’t that I don’t enjoy having them around, but I don’t […]