Totally Unrelated to Kids: Unusual Weather and Homemade Food

The other day, a lovely woman that I know was saying that she’d like to have her baby in a Birthing Center, but there are no Birthing Centers in Fort Collins. (The nearest one is in Longmont, about an hour away.) Without any thought, I fired off some comment about how Longmont’s hospital is not-for-profit,

It’s Fort Collins and the summer is (unintentionally) hot

Near and dear to Fort Collins are the foothills. People build beautiful dream homes  in these foothills, within spitting distance of Long’s Peak and Rocky Mountain National Park. And these hills are on fire. This is the second major fire of the year, and it’s awful. I’d complain about the air quality except that people

Rescue your main dish: Polenta with corn and herbs

I have been very lazy lately. It’s all I can do to put dinner on the table…and it isn’t even summer yet. Just wait until it’s really hot out, I’m completely useless. As we all know, sometimes you just have to put something in front of the masses. As much as I like vegetarian cooking

Dear Lent, a confession

I’d like to give a public progress report of my lenten resolutions. I gave up facebook for Lent, and this is something that I’d done the past two years. This year, I decided to ratchet things up a notch if you’ll remember. I gave myself the additional ascetic observances of only an hour per day

I’m out of touch

True confessions from a person who is sadly apathetic to this fact. I own nothing made by Apple. To be completely honest, I did own an ipod shuffle circa 2004, and Cory used it for a while until it finally broke. I don’t have a smart phone.I have the same flip-phone that I purchased in

Love me some Fat Tuesday

Oh, it’s the day before Ash Wednesday and all through the house, a mommy is planning to be pure and devout. Just kidding. Actually, as I was sharing in a comment on a fabulous blog called Rich, Full Life, I do enjoy maintaining a certain amount of cultural catholic traditions (even if I haven’t been

Cheap mommy escapism

It is so much fun to have down-time, no? The other night I hosted some mommy friends at my house for a “Mommy’s Night In.” If you have a basement (or other suitable room) to banish the rest of your family to, this is an excellent source of fun. Women come, they bring wine, you