Roots and Grubs

Iris: My favorite cheese is pancetta. Me: That’s a meat. Do you mean cheddar? Iris: Mama! My favorite cheese is pancheddar!

Iris and I were playing a recently-invented game called Funny Food. She has these little Japanese erasers in the shape of various food items, mostly desserts, and we disassemble and reassemble them in bizarre ways, like chocolate-covered French fries or three strawberries served in an empty French fry container (this is one of the new […]

For reasons that I can’t begin to explain, Iris and her cousin Kylie came to me and asked me to write a homework assignment with questions for someone studying to be a detective. The first question I came up with was: What is something red you would find at a crime scene? They took the […]

Laurie (to me): In another life, if you didn’t have us around, you might be eating Hot Pockets and playing rock music all day. Iris: That’s what I will do!

Iris and I did a pirate story called Root Cellar Island, in which K. Rool and his crew find a secret cache of root vegetables under Iris’s bed. They roast them over an open fire, with the help of Iris (a good fairy). K. Rool: I have a question. What are you planning to do […]