I know there is much celebration and delight in the whole Brussels sprouts plus bacon plus balsamic vinegar recipe realm; and I like that, too.
For starters, I do enjoy many in the brassica…
My, my, my!
In my attempts to make some jalapeño simple syrup (which I've made before and is quite easy to make), I had put some sugar, water and jalapeños on…
The amount of time I spend salivating over the various color options for Pentel's Energel pens is something! I love the teal, the burgundy and the steel blue. I love the purple and…
When my father died a few years ago and left a muddled and messy estate behind, we desperately needed an estate lawyer. As the estates's personal representative, I asked a lawyer whose opinion…
Yesterday I had an appointment at an office that has quite a few patients come through in a given day.
Someone had come into the office before me -- whether that was…
My mother is an artist. (She's also many other things, but she is an artist, for sure.) I just love her work!
When she was a child in an immigrant-rich, crowded and filled-to-the-gills, coal-mining town…
For the past few months, anytime anyone in our (small, but mighty) family spoke with my sister Rebecca, we got an earful about the Global Seed Library Census project she was spearheading. Well,…
There's a movie out now. A psychological drama, of sorts. Not gonna say which, but folks be talkin' about it a bit online and such as it is one that makes you think.
For…
Clearing out old emails and notes long piled up and I found this link to a podcast interview I did a few years ago with the Ever Better folks. Says the site:
'"Jessie Newburn…
I like to make balms and salves. Really good ones with really fabulous ingredients. I make them for myself, for friends and -- come the winter holiday season -- for many of the…
Awww.
I was recently encouraged to--and did--watch "The Big Bang Theory." (There's a strong line of Aspergers in my family and the show provides a lovely reminder that some folks cannot read social cues--something…
That is one very, very large Santa ... and Rudolph, as well.
Not my cup of tea -- and thankfully -- not my next-door neighbor.
Each to our own!