sweets

I baked a cake today during the baby’s nap — she’s still a baby, even if she’s almost two and is picking up more and more words every day; still a baby for at least another six months, please — and it was a…

I had a few things I meant to do before we left for a few days in The Hunter [Valley] — I meant to pack the ‘good camera’ (my trusty DSLR) and I meant to bake a batch of rhubarb scones. I envisioned us…

’tis the season already — we’ve installed a real tree for the first time in five years and our house is softly perfumed with the scent of the outdoors. For the last few years in San Francisco we had a tree that was cut…

My Thanksgiving menu is set, a good thing since I’ve just realized the holiday is next week. Strange to commemorate a holiday that celebrates the harvest, autumn, and the earliest inhabitants of another continent when one is living in a (granted, also a former…

Me again, the one who is still kind of on the Northern Hemisphere’s schedule despite the purple jacaranda trees, birds merrily singing us awake before 6 a.m., the grass turning green and temperatures inching ever upwards — all signs of spring in most parts…