Part of my day job involves teaching a freshman orientation class. If you went to college in the last 15 years you probably had to take one; and if you started college in the last 5 years, I guarantee you did. They go by names like Freshman Seminar or Intro. to the University and are …
Beer bubbling away in my living room = English Pale Ale. Spent grain cooking experiment happily resting in my kitchen = granola. I am really pleased with how my second adventure in spent grain cooking turned out. I combined a couple of recipes (one for spent grain and one for just regular granola) and the …
This past Friday I returned to my alma mater for a student/alumni networking social. This was the third or fourth time I’ve participated in the event, which is designed to give current students a chance to ask alumni questions about their career path and how it is (or isn’t) related to what they studied in …
On my morning scroll through Twitter I ran across this post from Ben Folds: And my first thought was “Wow, his daughter has really grown up.” As if I knew Ben or his daughter personally. But that’s the thing when you write a lot (be it songs or poems or short stories or novels …
In light of yesterday’s holiday, I thought I would share a few of my favorite things around the web these days. Amy Tan. I’ve been an avid reader of her blog for some time now. I can’t even remember how I initially stumbled on it, but I can say with certainty that most anything cool I …
Yesterday was a Brew Day at our house. Today there’s a batch of Bourbon Barrel Porter happily fermenting in corner of my living room. There are also several dozen beer cookies resting happily in my kitchen. I’ve been aware of the concept of baking with the leftover grain from the brew process (called spent grain*) …
As referenced in my previous post, I just spent a long weekend in New York. I planned the trip as a celebration of my husband’s 40th birthday. While the trip alone was a great celebration; even better was the fact that three other friends travelled from Richmond, and two additional from New Jersey to celebrate …
So I’m trying my hand at blogging on the go today, from a train headed north to Penn Station. The last time I took the train to New York I was frantically writing a paper on the train so that I could enjoy my long weekend without it hanging over me. How nice to be …
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 …
The City of Richmond ran a marketing campaign at some point in the last several years using the slogan “Easy to Love.” I believe it was meant to be a reference to the fact that we are the capital city of the state for lovers (Virginia is, you know). I used to smirk a bit …
