Women are needed in the home — let’s do this!
Sourdough bread thoughts and tips
I just got back from visiting Suki — you can’t even imagine how hot it is in this picture. We weirdly paid no attention to the thermometer (basically it was 100 degrees out) and opted for a fried chicken picnic by the river. Of course I had a wonderful time with them! Before I left… Read More »
To be happy at home
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.” — Dr. Johnson As the school year begins, I know how easy it is to feel a sense of urgency and even panic! Time to sign… Read More »
{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter! (This will all look and work better if you click on the actual post and do not remain on the main page.) At the bottom of this blog (the home page) I put a quote that I find positively brilliant, not… Read More »
Ordinary beauty.
If you’ve ever heard a talk given by me in the past year or two, you’ve heard me dwell for a bit on a lovely observation from Roger Scruton on beauty. He points out that there are two kinds of beauty: “The individual, expressive and revealing gesture, and ordinary harmony and fittingness. In everyday life it… Read More »