The madeleine Blog

Friday is always Soup Day at my house. This is one of the handful of routines I have been able to maintain over the years, since my older...

I would never have imagined writing two consecutive posts about figs. I enjoy figs, don’t get me wrong. But not the way I gobble up plump...

So here we go, I guess. The back-to-school thing. We did it, I think. Although no one will say that it was easy. But as if by magic,...

It hit me suddenly yesterday. The whole New York and America thing. It was the last day of school for my boys and as a surprise, their...

I think the hardest thing for me to deal with as a parent is just STUFF. I mean just THINGS, material physical objects - toys, clothes,...

Photo @madeleinediaries Last summer, seemingly overnight, my daughter became a teenager, and I was not prepared. Sure, there had been a...

Photo @madeleinediaries Today I am beginning what I hope will end up being a consistent series, and a new category on my website - a...

Photo Adobe Stock As the title of this post would not let anybody guess, I am back on this site after a 17-month hiatus. I am also back...

Photo Adobe Stock I haven’t done much cooking lately and haven’t felt much of an urge to cook either. Somehow days and evenings go by and...

Photo NY Times I don’t know if you have noticed, but I am writing this post a mere three days after my last ridiculously late post about...

I’m not sure Halloween still qualifies as back-to-school time. In fact, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t, and I for one feel like we have been...

I realize the title of this post sounds a little too assertive and over-confident, but this is something I actually feel pretty confident...

Photo @madeleine diaries Last week, maybe as a way of making our upcoming California trip feel closer while I remained trapped in New...

Photo @madeleine diaries I have been back in the city heat after a welcome long weekend, which was decided at the last minute and did...

My house has been strangely quiet lately. After a whirlwind of packing and birthday parties and school picnics and dance and music...

Photo @Adobe Stock This probably should have been my first post, and definitely not something published randomly four months after the...

Photo @madeleinediaries I struggled for so long to figure out what in the world this first post would be about, and then, of course, it...