Mira and I ended up spending our Valentine’s Day day together. She had two PINK eyes, and I had been up all night long the night before with HEART BURN. We were quite the pair! Since Mira was feeling well besides the gory looking eyes, we just enjoyed hanging out together and doing errands around […]
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When I was a little girl, my mom would serve us pot de creme only once or twice a year, and we could not wait to have it. Her presentation was so elegant. We received our pots in lusterous ivory china demi-tasse cups and served with real silver demi-tasse spoons. I felt like a princess. […]
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(photo credit: http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue10/dancingwhitedarkness.htm) The divine Maya Deren. Experimental film maker and actress who lived on the Lower East Side as an artist way before anyone else was doing it. There is something intensely awake about her on film and very, very subtle. Go take a peek here. And, as for a young, up and coming […]
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As my morning sickness continues to plague me even this late in the game, I have had to find some means of distraction. Standing on my head is one of them, sewing is the other. Both require focus, patience, and creativity. The yoga gives me energy and strength, but it’s the sewing that sustains my […]
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Following the Soule Mama caravan… though adding about how proud this mama is of her little writer. Also a translation: “Second, you put in the ingredients.”-Mira, cookbook author and illustrator, age 5
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…