Today I’m posting at Food for the Hungry. Hope you’ll check it out. When my co-workers found Mayra, she was 10 years old. She was living with her parents and her five younger siblings. If you were to visit Mayra’s home in the neighborhood of Horno Ckasa, Bolivia, you’d first notice the door. We don’t …
Author Archives: Wendy
Baking by Weight, Not Volume
It might be hyperbole to say that baking by weight rather than volume has changed my life. But it has certainly changed my life in the kitchen. When I got into sourdough bread baking a few years ago, I read somewhere that measuring by weight is much more accurate than measuring by volume, especially for …
Saving Her Allowance
My post today over at Food for the Hungry… My 8-year-old daughter answered the phone with something urgent to tell me. “Mom, this girl has worms in her belly,” Linda blurted. I had a moment of panic, wondering what could possibly have happened at home in the 24 hours since I had left town on …
Three Gifts on Christmas Morning
My post today over at Food for the Hungry… When my husband and I reinvented our Christmas celebration a few years ago, we reconsidered gift giving. It was our daughters’ first Christmas after joining our family at ages three and four. We had a blank slate. It was around this time that a good friend, …