I had been meaning to update the picture on the header of my blog for a while and finally got around it this past weekend. The flower/bee seemed to indicate I might be talking about nature or gardening or honey production. Since I’m much more likely to talk about city living or music listening or beer drinking it …
Last year about this time I had just finished reading David Lebovitz’s The Sweet Life in Paris. The book is a collection of the author’s reflections on living in Paris with some of his recipes included at the end of every chapter. I drank in every word (along with a fair amount of Kir as …
This wasn’t my best week. We all have them, the ones where we feel like we aren’t quite bringing our “a-game.” The ones that leave us mostly exhausted. I’m lucky that these are few and far between for me. There was certainly a time in my life where they were more the norm than the …
I finished my Master’s Degree at the end of 2011 and therefore am pretty excited about the stack of non-academic reading that is piling up next to my bed in 2012! Here’s a quick dissection of the picture above (from the bottom): Journal- This is a really beautiful one; filled with really nice cottony, fiber-y paper that feels old-fashioned and …
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I’m not sure when I stopped wishing I could date rock stars and started wanting to invite them and their wives over for dinner . . . but that’s exactly what I wanted to do after Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers’ inspiring set* last night. This doesn’t do it justice, but enjoy anyway! *I suppose sets would be …
Every year my extended family on my father’s side gathers at my grandparent’s house to celebrate Christmas together. I have five cousins on this side of the family. We are all married, making us a group of ten. Two of the five couples have children, adding another five to the group. Throw in my parents, …
Over the weekend, I watched one of my favorite Christmas movies – While You Were Sleeping. The one from the mid-nineties with Sandra Bullock, Peter Gallagher and Bill Pullman. And yes, I realize it is not actually a Christmas movie . . . but it is set at Christmas time and I watch it at …
About a year and a half ago my husband and I did the unthinkable . . . we sold one of our two cars. Obviously the unthinkable element of this requires some explanation, as anyone who lives in a city with (effective) mass transit is surely scratching his or her head and wondering why we …
Day of the Dead celebrations appeal to my inner existentialist in a big way. I have yet to attend one or throw my own, but I love the idea of pausing to remember and celebrate the lives of those we’ve lost. The key concepts here, in my opinion, being pause and celebrate. I think one of the …
I started making salsa fish more than ten years ago, when at a friend’s prompting I decided to pay a little more attention to what I was feeding myself for dinner. She was (rightly) appalled at the frequency with which I mentioned eating Lipton noodles and/or cereal for dinner. One of the first things I …
