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Princess of Pies

by Robin | Nov 9, 2017 | Food and Drink, Home, Hospitality, Inspiring, Personal, Recipes, Uncategorized

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. Elsa Schiaparelli My mother-in-love is one of the best cooks on the planet. I learned that the first time I met her. Then, a college student sustained mostly by starchy, mysterious, dining hall fare,...

If these walls could speak

by Robin | Jun 2, 2016 | Art of Simple, Beauty, Empty Nest, Encouragement, Family, friendship, Home, Love Where You Live, Memoir, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized

A week ago we sold the house my children will always remember as home, the one they will dream about when they are the age I am now, when sleep makes them think they are young again. We’ve packed and we’ve purged and we’ve cried – a lot –...

Listen

by Robin | Jul 4, 2015 | Aging, Family, Home, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized

In the distance I hear a rooster. He’s persistent, this one, afraid we didn’t hear him the first time. He repeats his song–a cockle, an alarm, a lament. It’s midday and he’s waking no one. The air conditioner just cut on. I’m...

…open a new door…!

by Robin | Mar 27, 2014 | Art, Favorite things, Home, Personal, Uncategorized

Oh, hai there internet people, long time no see. Well, I have reasons, lovies, and good ones. I’ve kinda-sorta been occupied, some reasons to which I’ve alluded online, but mostly not. For an over-sharer who lives with private people, I imagine...

when it snows, i write love letters

by Robin | Oct 28, 2012 | Adventures in Germany, Favorite things, Home, Kids, Life with boys, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal

snow fall and tear drop No matter the number of children you deliver, how can it be that each is your favorite, for reasons as many and varied as the things that shade their differences? Intense and deep affection, seemingly dulled by the dailiness of living, is...

An Ode to Spring Cleaning

by Robin | Apr 4, 2012 | Home, Inspiring, Kids, Mom stuff, Poetry

Wowza…my friend Christine at I Dream of Clean is hosting a huge Spring Cleaning Challenge with some pretty big prizes at stake. Though I won't have opportunity to Spring Clean until I get home, my family assures me they've kept our house spic and...