How it all began…

Sometime during my teenage years my mother decided that learning to cook was a mandatory skill for her oldest child, a.k.a. me. Born in mid-war Germany as the middle child of a farmer’s family with nine children, it made total sense to my mother that cooking and darning socks were… Read more »

October 2011

The Period and the Pause

I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but I had a partial hysterectomy two days after I met my girlfriend. Since we didn’t know each other except for one drive-by coffee date, she very politely said she would email me sometime during my recovery (which ended up being four… Read more »

September 2011
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