A while back I stumbled upon a claim that it’s possible to make microwave popcorn using regular popcorn and a paper bag. I was skeptical, I confess, but hopeful. It seemed like the perfect way to stop my husband messing up my good heavy-bottomed soup pot popping corn on the stovetop, and it would be… Read More Live and learn

I had to go to three different plant stores to get all the right colors for my rainbow of heather, but if a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right, I always say.

The day that my mother some may have feared would never come has arrived: the baby factory is closed. I got a hormonal IUD put in this morning, and if everything they say is true, I shouldn’t have to think about birth control again for another five years. This is very good news, as I… Read More Five is enough

Olof’s gone off to his parents’ house for a surströmming lunch, and I couldn’t help thinking of this post I wrote many years back. Be forewarned, it entails entrails of the fishy sort.

I’m such a sucker for houndstooth, so when I saw this purse on Etsy, I just had to have it.

The sound is not enhanced here at all … she really is that loud.

Olof’s English is so good that I almost forget sometimes he’s not a native speaker. As I’ve said before, we have English as our family language, and when he was still working at home most of his colleagues were non-Swedish, which meant that nearly all of the phone calls I heard him make over the… Read More Pondering