I am totally embarrassed. I should have known better. I do know better. Yet there I was last week, making strawberry ice cream in the middle of winter. (We’ll ignore the foolishness of continuing to make any kind of ice cream long after the end of summer.) Call me stupid. Call me obsessive. Call me […]

My children are growing up. Not exactly breaking news, I know, but these developments surprise you sometimes. The other night as the girls were watching a video with their mother, a kissing scene came on. The younger daughter covered her eyes and groaned about how inappropriate it was, but the elder one did not complain. […]

In my office, I have a picture of the male side of my family, pre- next generation. It features my dad, my grandfather, my brothers and me. My brothers and I were in college at the time so we all look pretty goofy. My dad and grandfather, on the other hand, are both nicely dressed […]

What the hell do I know about tropical fruit? As a boy, the closest I ever got to exotic was shaved coconut on an occasional doughnut or German chocolate cake, neither of which I ate with any relish (see here). Beyond that there were pears, apples (nothing too extreme, just red delicious and pippin), bananas […]