Writing the good read
This was almost lunch: Latke, egg and hollandaise, Mine with pastrami *** Egg soft in middle But firm whites on the outside Buttery goodness drowns *** Crisp potato bed Pastrami and eggs on top Hollandaise smothered *** Oh Stopsky’s Deli! Would that I could come visit And eat this daily!
I’m having a busy day today. Sometimes on such a day, I need a respite. Looking at these cherry trees a couple weeks ago was the equivalent of a little break. Now, I have to rely on the pictures. Maybe you’re having a busy day, too. Put yourself in this picture. Imagine the birds singing,…
Every time I hear something about the Trayvon Martin case, I feel sick to my stomach. There is no case, ever, in which it’s okay that a 17 year old dies of a gunshot wound. Part of what angers me is the case itself. George Zimmerman may very well have felt his life was in…
I love a good crisp apple, a blood orange or one of those super sweet easy peel tangerines. Meyer lemons are great, and I have a great recipe for a citrus tart that is amazing and winter friendly. I love Fuyu persimmons and pomegranates. I start getting antsy around the time the rhubarb in my…
The Mean Lady doesn’t just torture my body and recommend which brand of condoms a newly single lady should use. She’s multi-talented and for a year has been on me to try this great recipe for watermelon gazpacho from the pages of Bon Appetit. So the other day, I had Mia come over to teach…
If my life is a movie, I get that I’m the star, and the director and producer, but I’m pretty darn sure at this point that someone else wrote the script. Because this is not where I’m supposed to be, in an personal care aisle in a superstore looking at 18 shelf feet of choices…
The late great Katie, our beloved dog for 14 of her 17+ years, got a bath about every other week until she was quite ancient. It kept her sweet smelling, kept her shedding down, and although we had to chase her down and carry her (with a pathetic look on her face that screamed: “Not…
If it’s Sunday it must be time for me to wander through some of the other 252 blogs that are part of the WordCount Blogathon. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did, do, and will continue to enjoy. Aubergine — Dona Baumbarner’s blog, which she calls the “musings of a mid-life mama”….
My Pilates instructor, known in these parts as The Mean Lady, is pregnant with her first child. It’s hard to watch her and not be brought back to my own pregnancy 15 years ago, to the excitement, the wonder, and also the fear, the nausea, and the panicked realization that I was no longer driving…
I went to see The Castaways at Urban Coffee Lounge in Kirkland tonight. It’s a ukulele band that does cover songs from the ’80s. I’ll give you a minute while you read that sentence again. They’re fabulous. You wouldn’t think a bunch of ukuleles and some drums could sound so cool, but they do. The…
