"You guys don't know what to do with cut flowers," my mother said when she saw some cut snapdragons in a glass with no water in it. Ali had cut them so that I could smell them; they were supposed to be scented and it turned out they were. She's right- we love to grow …
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Laundry with Kaya
Laundry has always been a subject dear to my heart, although if you didn't candy coat it, you could reasonably call me anal about laundry. That's why it was so satisfying to finally find an efficient way to do laundry here (seepost). And one of the main reasons that I was so keen to untangle …
Baby for breakfast
I remember before Baki was born, a friend told me I could forget about reading ever again. I was disheartened by this, but I needn't have been. Breastfeeding chained me to a chair for hours, and I read stacks of old New Yorkers from my parents' house. This time around, my iPod has changed things …
Brothers
Of all of us, Baki is the one who's seem the biggest change on his life. After all, I was already a mom and Ali was already a dad. But Baki has only just become a brother. Naturally, we all wondered how he would take to it, especially once he voiced his disapproval at having …
Kaya: a birth story
Note: this is a birth story, so it contains some of the attendant horrors of childbirth, beautiful miracle that it is. Just a warning, in case you're not into that kind if thing! On Sunday night, we all headed down to the red house to sleep. I was thinking about the laundry that I wanted …
Garden Correspondent 