Love & Duty
“May I do my work out of love, and not out of duty.” I say this every day as part of my morning prayer. I added it in a few years back, when homeschooling Saoirse and Ula was at its most challenging. Like every over-achieving mom, I was having a hard time sorting out what […]
Headcheese
I know. You’re super-sad that you couldn’t make it out to the cafe this past weekend to enjoy our headcheese special. But…what luck! Your neighbors just happened to have a spare pig head they’d like to give to you! Well, now you can make your own… Okay, this is a big project. But it isn’t […]
Sap Bush Cafe Prix Fixe Brunch July 29-30
Your choice of: Tomato Garlic Chicken Salad Barbers’ Cherry tomatoes and braised garlic, paired with Sap Bush Hollow pastured chicken OR Head cheese (c’mon! Ever tried it?) Sap Bush Hollow Pastured Pork and fresh herbs, served refreshingly cool over Barbers’ greens, drizzled with olive oil and coarse salt, paired with a wedge of lemon Also included: […]
Culture Shock
Is this character, or is this cultural? I’ve just returned home from the cafe for lunch to find two Spanish teenagers melted across my living room couch, faces illuminated by smartphones. My own teenager has retreated to help her dad stack the firewood. I don’t think they notice she’s left them. They don’t even notice […]
Adventures in Shopping
“We’re at a store called Pink. Did you know you can try on thongs over your shorts?” This is a week of many firsts: Saoirse’s first “hang out” at the mall with Martina, our foreign exchange student from Madrid; her first siting of a Wendy’s restaurant; her first exposure to the makeup aisle at Wal-Mart, […]
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