A great homemade treat to bring in to the classroom for a birthday celebration. What You Need: Anxiety. Homemade pavlovas. (Just don’t be stupid, do not substitute more lemon juice for less sugar, and Cream of Tartar for cornstarch like I did. Do. Not.) Fresh berries – strawberries, raspberries, blueberries – cut them up and mixed with [...]

It’s Fi’s 11th birthday. As my children age at warp-speed, the milestones pass faster and faster, and faster. I find myself not wanting them me to age. There really is some truth to the pop-psychology theory about how moms resist their babies growing up because we are hanging onto the last threads of our own mortality. [...]

Dear Betty, I have a confession to make: I can’t bake.