Alexander Chee, from his essay Annie Dillard and the Writing Life in The Morning News: "Talent isn’t enough, she had told us. Writing is work. Anyone can do this, anyone can learn to do this. It’s not rocket science, it’s habits of mind and...

I know, I know: too many recipes, not enough interesting stuff. Sorry. Ha! I just hit enter and it published my post. All two sentences of it. Anyhow. I'm posting this recipe so I can remember it next Thanksgiving, because it was all the good things...

This recipe is from my dear mother-in-law, Kathy. She used to do so much Christmas baking and store all the cookies in covered plastic ice cream buckets out on the side porch--which in Wisconsin is kind of like placing them in the fridge. Now she can't...

We made these every year when I was a kid, along with sugar cookies. I call them Pepparkakor because that's what my mom called them, but I don't know if this is the proper traditional Swedish recipe. It sure is good, though. Kind of like a gingerbread...

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Ours was lovely, very low-stress with just the four of us and Chris' parents. I updated my mom's traditional sweet potato recipe and I'm very pleased with the results. Maybe I'll post the recipe later on, but...