Sprouts.

by | Mar 22, 2009

I’m pretty sure potatoes in your cupboard aren’t supposed to look like this. They’re kind of beautiful and otherworldly. I need to be a better housekeeper.

But which toilet flushes Legos and plastic dinosaurs best?

by | Jan 27, 2009

The big excitement of this past weekend was the installation of a new toilet in our downstairs bathroom. Our downstairs bathroom is one of the areas we can show people when we want to show how much work we (Dave) have done on the house, since it’s pretty...

That's a big bowl of oatmeal, son

by | Jan 2, 2009

So sometimes your kid comes up to you with a ridiculous request, like, “I want oatmeal in the biggest bowl we have!” And sometimes you are feeling snippy and you sigh and sort of pretend you didn’t hear and give him oatmeal in a regular bowl. But...

There are still little piles of clutter everywhere, still

by | Dec 29, 2008

Let’s appreciate the fact that, as I sat down to read an article about how I, personally, am conquering clutter, my living room looked like the photo at left. “This is a fun house where no one ever sleeps!” the children said. It took me a minute to...

Holiday Tip: Slow Christmas

by | Dec 20, 2008

First there was slow food, then slow blogging. I am frankly quite shocked that no one has trademarked the term “Slow Christmas” yet (or at least not that I’ve seen in my not-particularly-vast survey of literature). So let me just put the word out...

Holiday Tip: How to get away with not cleaning the bathroom

by | Dec 13, 2008

Let’s say you’re having a holiday party at your house. And let’s say that you’re stressing out a little bit about how much you’ve got to do in preparation for this party. And you just realized that people will be using your bathroom, and...