I’ve answered to the name Muffin Mama since before my kids were born. I love muffins, and there is often a pan of them baking at our house, filling the kitchen with fragrant lusciousness. When we learned that our boys were gluten- and casein-intolerant my husband and I went to […]
My dad, Ken, turned 90 last week. He is a bona fide Northwest Healthy Dad if ever there was one. Northwest born and bred, this is where he raised his family. Ken was a tall, skinny kid with lots of thick, curly hair. When he came home from the army […]
The kitchen was the hub of our home in my youth. It was not only the room we had to pass through to get from one part of the house to the other, but around that table we got to know each other and experience our first taste of community. […]
Dear Mama at the Strawberry Barn, I know it’s been several weeks since strawberry season, but you and your little girls keep coming to my mind. I was so impressed with them, and with you, as you brought the boxes of berries that you had picked that morning to be weighed. I loved how […]
Our boys have received their education in a wide variety of settings — public school, private school, homeschool. Public schools included typical classrooms, parent co-op programs, special education, and now the 18-21 transition program. We did Christian school and speciality schools, and even had preschool with Gramma. I guess you […]
It was Halloween, 1967, not quite three months since my 18-year-old brother, Tom, had passed away. My parents were deeply grieving the death of their eldest child while caring for the remaining four of us. Dad and Mom had been out, taking the younger kids trick-or-treating. When they pulled into […]
