Steak with shitakes and onion, couscous salad with tomatoes and cucumber, Persimmon season — my favorite time of the year. An indian eggplant dish with some spaghetti squash Orechiette with arugula pecan pesto, spaghetti squash with butter, parsley and Parmesan Steak with Chantrelles. Kobocha and golden pippin squash soup and salad with escarole, papaya, and…

Hi, my little 3 month old, Juniper is a demanding one, but she let me sneak into a few galleries this month. Robert Shotola at Blackfish Gallery Jose Guinto at Chambers 916 Justin L’Amie at PDX Contemporary Art Shane McAdams at Elizabeth Leach

Our CSA shares are coming to an end this week. I’m sad to see the season go. I’ve been busy preparing and freezing as much as I can so we can have lots of easy dinners this winter and I can focus on art more instead of all this cooking. Here’s what’s been for dinner:…

Well I’m obviously not going to reach my goal of 365 drawings this year, but now that Juniper is sleeping on a semi regular basis, I’m starting up the practice again. Her are a few.

I’ve been taking photos of my dinners. A small step towards getting back into a routine while taking care of the newborn. Here they are:

Hi Patrice, nice to meet you today. I forgot I’d posted juniper’s birth story on her blog. You can read it here.

Juniper is about to wake up any second but I thought I’d make a quick post. I’ve been thinking about how, even with a challenging newborn, we’ve been able to have fresh cooked meals almost every night. And I’ve been thinking about how, for close to ten years now, Tom and I have eaten dinner…

I turned 40 yesterday! The 30’s were an incredibly good decade for me. My life completely turned around. I met Tom when I was 29 and my life has gone through huge positive changes. I went back to school, got married, moved states, bought a house, Adopted a dog and had a baby. I’m healthier…

I met my neighbor Rebecca today. She was photographing my next door neighbor so I stopped to chat and show off the little one. Rebecca is doing a photo day project wheee she posts photos of women on her website with a statement about what inspires them. She ended up photographing me as well. I…

My birthday is fast approaching. I’ll be 40 whole years old. Strange feeling having a newborn just before my 40th birthday. I don’t feel 40 though my hair is pretty much completely grey. A woman at safeway yesterday asked me if i was over 21. I almost fell over in shock. Not that long ago…

Since we moved into this 1908 craftsman 5 months ago, the work of William Morris keeps coming up. When thinking about furnishing and decorating a craftsman, it’s pretty hard to not stumble across quotes and ideas of morris’s. Most famously: â??Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe…

I’m starting a new book. A book of bees by sue hubbell. It’s so hot, there’s nothing to do except escape from the heat in an air conditioned room with a good book.

Now that Juniper is here, and has her own blog, I’m going to get back to art and life on my own blog. Probably starting with some sharing of art websites I like, since I’m confined to a nursing chair for so many hours of the day! Hurray for ipads. My gestational diabetes appears to…

Just a quick note to say juniper is here! You can read more about it on her blog http://juniperleigh.com/ yes, discount our 6 day old girl has her own blog.

My gestational diabetes diet