the dirty dozen {excerpts from yelp reviews of crystal springs rhododendron garden *} 01 During our trip to Portland to see extended family...

03.22.10 i love me some spray paint. the opportunity to use it doesn't come up very often; i made silver ornaments for our christmas tr...

04.16.09: again with the treacle and the cherry blossoms on a double-time errand run over my lunch break this afternoon, a patch of excellen...

04.15.09 favorite things: spicy inglehoffer mustard (and the excellent little potbellied jars it leaves behind), my great-grandfather's ...

06.19.08 i think we all knew that kidchamp was capable of degenerating into amateur floral arrangement by committee and/or multiple disembod...

04.28.06 today's lesson in wedding strategy is that it isn't always a good idea to muffle one's inner bridezilla. i'd been h...