So I really wasn’t ready for this whole Miss Independent Thing to happen so early. I figured I had a few years before she started asking for the car keys and permission to go backpacking across Europe.

We are now at the…

Being a mother of a baby isn’t so bad.

Of course, it hasn’t been easy. There’s been the sleep deprivation. Coming to grips with the physical aftermath of childbirth. The identity shift. The new and terrifying responsibility of a brand new life.…

Three and a half years ago, I decided to get a dog. Well, actually I didn’t just get a dog, I got a puppy. I had a void in my life that I believed was shaped exactly like a ten…

Two weeks ago, I dropped my kitchen scale, one of my most valued tools in the kitchen, and it seems to be broken.

At the time, I was in a terribly good mood, which is the only reason at the…

Before Sophie was born all of the pregnancy magazines told me to take a babymoon, a word that I can’t even believe I just typed in a sentence. For me, it falls in that gag me with a spoon category, a…

Somewhere along the way, I lost my career.

It wasn’t in as dramatic a fashion as say, a professional athlete suffering a career-ending injury that forces him to sell the Bentley and start selling life insurance or used cars. I had…

For the past few months, I’ve been participating in BlogHer’s Family Connections citizen journalism project as a Momspotter. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen the #momspotting hashtags. Basically that means I tweet a few times a day about…

Today is one of those days when the weather is so brutal you expect to hear reports on the news about people dying because of the cold. Normally this would just be par for the winter suckfest course up here,…

I feel a bit cheated that I only found out about this recipe today. Many people have talked about this sauce on their blogs (too many to list here), and if it weren’t for them, I never would have found…

I am the eldest of four children; my brother and I are adopted from Korea. (My mother gave birth to my two sisters later.) She always told us that she “loved all of us the same,” regardless of whether we…

What can I say about 2009? I had a baby. What else needs to be said?

Even though I haven’t said much, I’ve thought a lot about 2010 and how I’d like it to go. I’m not one for making a…

I’ve spent the last week enduring a sinus infection to top all sinus infections, including a throat that’s been so sore I can barely breathe and a head full of yellow gunk. Bad news? I’ve pretty much lost my sense…

It turns out that you can have a pretty decent Christmas even if you…

1. Come down with some sort of flu virus cold throat condition of death. It will hurt every time you try to talk, but cookies still taste pretty…

My brain shuts down for the last two weeks of the year, especially when I have to spend some of that time in the office. I’ve got nothing better than this today. Enjoy.