Writing the good read
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…
Sometimes, Brian, I wonder if you want to carry the mantle of journalist raised by people like Mike Wallace, or just be a talking head, simplifying the news into 30 second bits. Tonight, for instance, in your discussion today about President Obama’s evolution on the topic of marriage equality, you, along with the rest of…
Someone on Facebook had a link to a post at Caveman Circus about what women really mean when they say certain things. It was mildly amusing, and some of it had a ring of truth — a loud sigh is, indeed, a word; sometimes when we say “Fine” we really mean “Are you kidding me?…
I just finished another book. I’m going to write about it next week, but it goes with the book I’ve just started (another example of my unique and unconscious ability to read books back to back that end up going together in some way). The pile next to my bed is getting a little shorter…