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Pamela Rothbard

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www.flouronthefloor.com A mother, writer, and baker living in Glencoe.
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Flour on the Floor: Money-Making Schemes Skip a Generation

Because of my father’s cockamamie schemes, my son’s ideas create a pavlovian response in me to counter them. I'm a cons lister.

Flour on the Floor: Pretending to be Italian

Over time, the fact that I’m adopted has faded into the background music of my life--the song is there but I mostly tune it out. Recent events have caused it to swell to full refrain.

Flour on the Floor: Shortbread Cookies are Not for Kids

As is always the way with children--well, with my children--a sweet, small idea quickly becomes overblown.

Flour on a New Floor

This fall, all of my efforts at creating predictability were crushed under the heel of some big changes.

Flour on the Floor: Oatmeal Cookies--Hold the Raisins

My dad is 88 and has dementia. I’m traveling from Chicago to Charleston, South Carolina to visit him at his nursing home and I have no idea what to expect.

Flour on the Floor: Pampering Myself with a Closet Clean-out

It takes twelve minutes for Mollie to whip through my shoes and create a stack of get-rid-ofs. I have 14 pairs that are “too.” Too worn. Too shiny. Too “mom.” Ouch.

Flour on the Floor: Camp Crumblers PART 2

I study each camp photo like it’s a treasure map. Or maybe a crime scene. I am Sherlock Holmes and I will solve the mystery of my son’s happiness at camp.

Flour on the Floor: (Sleep-away) Camp Crumblers

We position ourselves on the side of the bus we think our son’s on and wave dumbly at the row of darkly-tinted windows. Our daughter asks who I just blew a kiss too. I admit, “I’m not sure.”

Flour on the Floor: Mired in Mayberry

Glencoe's village has three schools and three stoplights and my husband and I moved here with our children a few years ago. I’m finally living the television dreams of my youth.

Flour on the Floor: Circle-of-Life Cake

Ed lived in this house for 43 years. His three children as well as multiple grandchildren grew here, all living under this roof at various times, a place for whomever needed to stay.

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