Second time Mom and Dark Chocolate Coconut Butter Chewies
Sometimes after I’ve put our toddler in bed, I’ll sit quietly in the dark by his side, buying my time, wondering how long I have before they figure out I’m available again. Free to be needed once more, to have my breasts sucked raw by our newborn baby till they bleed. I hide in the […]
World Peace Cookies
We woke up before the results were in. We spent our morning in Vietnam refreshing the Guardian’s page again and again, watching the US electoral college votes go up excruciatingly slowly and punishingly red. Then it became more red and finally all red. And like what seems to be happening way to often this year, […]
Are We Enough?
A Mother’s love is [a] dangerous, revolutionary love that unites our one human family and reminds us that we belong to each other and that there is no such thing as other people’s children. […]
Home Grown Lemons and the Real Reason I Bake
There are so many reasons to bake. And bake as in cake. After years of comforting myself in the kitchen by stirring, mixing and rubbing in butter, I suddenly realised why I am the one often bringing the cake to the party. The one who bakes banana bread after work, who makes scones for the […]
On New Motherhood and Grapefruit Lemon Loaves
People tell you it is the toughest job, that it is not easy, but you don’t really realize what that means until you go through it yourself. How hard can it be to take care of a little human? You see women at cafes chatting over coffee as their babe snoozes in a stroller, you […]
Life As We Know It … November 2015
” Be soft, Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, You still believe it to be a beautiful place.” […]
Life As We Know It … October 2015
“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” – Unknown I am sitting at our kitchen table overlooking a small corner of the South China Sea. Boats are passing. Some are huge cargo ships, chugging through the waves with containers of rice, wood, furniture […]
