My 4 year old, Carson, has a thing for pickles. He eats them at just about every meal except breakfast (and, yes, the boy would totally eat them with his waffles if he could!). He's such a pickle connoisseur, that he judges the quality of

My friend Audrey (who's an amazing yogini, writer and child wrangler) lives in Vancouver, Canada, and she sent me this photo of The Violets of March at London Drugs, which, for the U.S. readers here, I understand is sort of like Walgreens or Longs Drugs.

He's 6 months old, and he loves food. Today's lunch: prunes + oatmeal. Tonight's dinner, rattatoullie. Really. Kids have it good these days!

Exactly how I feel. Thanks to Kristina for the inspiration.

Do you knit? I learned when I was young, but forgot all my skills! I would love to re-learn. And, this cute sweater pattern might just get me to do it! Doesn't it make you look forward to fall? I love sweaters. I think knitting

Love. And, recipe here.

Why is it that I have lived 33 years and have not known about cake squares? Apparently they're an Australian favorite. Life just got a whole lot more interesting!

This makes me think of my 4-year-old's favorite children's book!

Inspired by the regular feature on Inchmark, a blog I adore, I thought I'd share (on occasion) some favorite library book finds. Let me just say, that as an author, I think it's so important to support authors, reading, publishing, bookstores and the business of