I flipped a sunny-side-up egg this morning as Gayle King exclaimed, “Only one week until Christmas! One week! Can you believe it?” The CBS Morning Show anchors all shook their…
Paper Doll Tales Posts
The day after Thanksgiving, those Parisians leaned tee-pees of wrapped Christmas trees against street corner newspaper stands, grocery market entrances, charcuterie doors, patisserie awnings. Christmas had arrived in Paris. Christmas…
“Santa is dead.” Miss C drops this bomb at gymnastics class. 10 other eye balls and 5 mouths go all perfect spheres. “Well. Then, who brings the presents on Christmas?” This, from…
Christmas cookies taste like security. When I was growing up, my grandmother made sure all of our festive cookie needs were met with a dash and panache of silver and…
Because of my fixation between food and mood and season, two stores float to the top of my happy list during the Thanksgiving shopping blitz: Williams Sonoma and Costco. Williams…
One of my favorite parts of Peter Rabbit’s Tale is at the very end, after his misadventures with cat, hoe, and snare in Mr. McGregor’s garden, when he races home…