After the War of the Landscaping Plastic, Simons and I decided it was time to Leave The House for a weekend. His family shares a country house at Edisto, and after some wrangling and begging, we squeezed ourselves in last minute. Naturally, our first […]

Today has not been a good day. At all.
It started with the Horrifying “Bug” Incident of 2009, of Which We Shall Not Speak Again, Yea God. This is best summarized by a series of text messages with my friend Amanda, while I walked the dog through the park.
J: OMG! OMG! Flaming heebie-jeebs from hell!
A: Spider??
J: […]

“Make-Up Bread & Butter Pudding – for when you need to apologize for being an evil raging harpy to your generally very kind husband (even though you maintain he was being an a-hole at the time) during a fight over the proper way to fold […]

Six years ago, which in New House Time is really last Friday, Simons and I waited breathlessly for the arrival of, no, not our firstborn child, but something even BETTER!
Dirt!
An entire truckload of dirt. Four thousand pounds of sifted topsoil, mushroom compost and regular compost, all mixed and […]

Here is the problem with owning a fix-up* house: it never ends. You bushwhack the jungle of a yard, only to walk inside and realize your mother-in-law is looking at your dirty Chinese takeout boxes from three days ago. You paint the kitchen, and as […]