Photo Kelly Rudnicki’s son Michael, 6, prepares batter for cookies that are allergy-safe for her family.Credit Kelly Rudnicki “I always think that my kids eat healthier because of their allergies,” said Cristina Henriquez, a writer who lives in Chicago. Her children are 8 and 3 and, between them, are allergic to eggs, peanuts, fish, shellfish,…
Photo Credit Getty Images Many people can roll their eyes, but adolescent girls have practically monopolized the ocular gesture as a form of communication. Adults on the receiving end of an eye roll are often offended, and sometimes that’s just what the girl had in mind. But frequently, it’s not. Eye-rolling serves a variety of…
Photo The author’s contribution to a Navy ship’s slide show on what families look forward to when their loved ones get home.Credit The hardest part of the journey is the first step, right? Respectfully, I disagree; I think it’s the steps in the middle. We’ve just passed the halfway point in my Navy husband’s seven-month…
Photo The author’s son.Credit It’s 3 in the morning when a lovely woman dressed in baby blue slips through a crack in the door to take my vital signs: temperature, blood pressure. She pings my knees with a rubber mallet, does a jerky massage on my feet to see if they’re swollen. “Your ankles look…
Photo RibsyCredit Rique Sollisch Almost 20 years ago, when our five kids were all in elementary school, Rique and I blended our families. That’s the word the parenting industry uses. “Blend.” Talk about euphemism. There is no stress in the word “blend.” It’s one utterly pleasant syllable. Blend is how you make smoothies. Another delightful…
Photo Credit Two things engage me when it comes to fiction — characters I want to spend more time with, and details, the juicier the better, from a world I’m curious about, but not likely to ever experience. Elizabeth LaBan’s novel “The Restaurant Critic’s Wife” has both. When Sam, the restaurant critic of the title,…
Photo KJ Dell’Antonia’s kitchen, en route to tidiness. The process took 10 days.Credit My kitchen wasn’t awful. Many nights, the clutter on the counter was arranged quite neatly. Most of the cabinets closed. We could cook in it, and did, with joy. But the cleaning up process never made me happy. I hated the shifting…
Photo Credit iStock Photo Maria KonnikovaCredit Margaret Singer and Max Freeman I’ve been a teacher, primarily of middle and high school English and Latin, for a long while now, and in that time I’ve been conned a thousand times. Now, I love my students. They are some of the most kind, giving and earnest children…
PARIS — The last thing the food universe seems to need these days is another restaurant guide. But the glut of guides hasn’t stopped France’s Foreign Ministry from compiling La Liste, an ambitious ranking of what it claims are the 1,000 best “tables of exception” in the world. La Liste is based on an algorithm…
The event was billed as a cutting-edge biohacking event, but it was tame compared with what goes on at the fringes of this community. Seven months earlier and about two hours away, in Tehachapi, a much more extreme clique of biohackers gathered to share the recent discoveries from their world at a gathering called GrindFest.…