about us
Eat more cookies is the story of life on the prairie for the O’Connells, Oklahoma annex. We are New Yorkers by birth, with most of our family living within a few minutes or few hours of each other in New York and Vermont. Tim and Tracy met at Cornell in the mid 1980s, spent five years in Virginia, and nine in Pennsylvania. Then in 2003, we loaded up the little green Saturn wagon and headed out to warmer pastures in Oklahoma. This blog is one way we try to keep friends and loved ones back home in touch with our lives outside of semiannual trips to the Northeast. At the same time, it describes some of our efforts to create “home” right here in a place that is not nearly so foreign now as it was a few years ago.
Our little nuclear family includes Katie and James, C. K. Dexter Pitten (the cream kitty), Pyewacket (my nemesis), and Ginger (a.k.a. Yellow Dog, Ginger-Pinger, Ginger-Pinger Pudding-and-Pie, Puddy, Pud-Pud).
We like nature, music, birds, learning, playing, dancing, Irish stuff, ImaginaryLand, Jedi knights, Cornell, Penn State, bacon, real maple syrup, old movies, Britcoms, bread, butter, spicy chips, warm hot cocoas, people being nice to each other just because, and, of course, cookies.
Welcome, have fun, and check back often. We’re at home on the range.
