” Simmering food slowly, for a long time, helps the juices penetrate the whole. Hardly anyone simmers anything anymore. Everything is zapped in the microwave or cooked as quickly as possible. I think this reflects on our spiritual life as well. Wisdom and wholeness deepen in us when we reflectively allow ideas and feelings to sit inside us for a [...]
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Week 46: Fall — the season to simmer soup and soul
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged autumn, fall on September 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Listening to the voices inside my head
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged spiritual director on September 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“Could you really be doing more by doing less?” — my head to me on a walk through my neighborhood one recent morning. A few months ago, I hooked up with a spiritual director. I was having lunch with someone I work with on church/immigration issues, someone I respect massively. She was going through a [...]
Week 45: This week, let’s go to bed hungry and eat Taco Bell in the car
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting on September 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“So if you don’t like it, you can just go to bed.” — me to Noah at the dinner table. And thus began a very stressful weekend in parenting-teen relations. All was good in 13-year-old land until he got a text, inviting him skating at the last minute Friday night. We’re new at this going [...]
Week 44: The inspiration of cousins and country air
Posted in Africa, dinner, family dinner, parenting on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“This is what this house is all about.” — Clyde’s cousin, Shelly, in the kitchen of her new country home this weekend. Both of Clyde’s parents are only children, yet he has children’s-book-worthy memories of growing up with his cousins. He was especially close to three girls, his second cousins from California, who spent many [...]
Week 43: Kids Cook Sundays and four other tips for getting through the busy week
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting on August 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” — Harriet Van Horn, American newspaper columnist Hear, hear! My kids are so like this. They will venture into any recipe with as much enthusiasm as they might give to a tree unclimbed or, sometimes, a match unlit. To nurture [...]
Week 42: The summer of SAD (Seriously107degreesisnothumane Affective Disorder), endless okra, and our annual goal list
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting, tagged goals, summer on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German playwright, poet, novelist For the last several summers, the kids and I have created a summer goal list sometime between the teacher gifts and shelved lunch boxes that mark the end of the school year and the always-packed pool bag [...]
Week 41: From white sand and flip flops to schedules and alarm clocks. Are we ready?
Posted in dinner, family dinner, tagged birthdays, cupcakes on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.” ~ Edgar W. Howe (American novelist, newspaper/magazine editor) It’s been a month since I’ve posted a normal week for us — a blessed month generally spent at the beach, with old [...]
Free digs, underage accountants, and other rules of the family road trip
Posted in family dinner, parenting, tagged budget, road trip, travel, vacation on August 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” — James Michener, American author Every year, I make it a goal to be out of Texas for one month. It used to be six weeks — the length most Europeans get for holiday — but [...]
Week 36: Together again, whether we want to be or not
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that [...]
Week 34: Jury duty, baseball camp & Belgian chocolate
Posted in dinner, family dinner, parenting on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and the wretches hang that jury-men may dine.” — Alexander Pope True dat. Man, our family dining has been a wreck since Clyde started jury duty Monday morning. We’re pulling it off, but barely. And only because Sawyer and Clyde are oh so very patient with our dining [...]
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