Writing the good read
A couple summers ago, Mia came for dinner. It was hot, and I had no desire to cook. And yes, it does get hot in Seattle. Anyway, I made this salad, and Mia has long wanted the recipe. The problem is, it doesn’t really have the recipe. But in honor of temps expected to be…
I’m no fan of Dick Cheney. But here’s something I’ll give him: for all that he dislikes the policies of the present administration and worries about the future of this country, he would never wish ill on it. He would never hope that more people would become unemployed or lose their homes; that more soldiers…
I have a niece who is as much of a reader as I am. She’s 12 and can’t get enough of books. I hope as I write this she’s taken my suggestion to heart and started in on Jane Austen — she reads at the high school level already. We were talking last week on…
So all these soup recipes and what to serve with it? Lately, there’s been a whole lot of press about no-knead breads. I’ve seen recipes in newspapers, in Mother Earth News, in Cook’s Illustrated (you need to sign up for a trial membership if you aren’t a subscriber to get the recipes) and even on…
We have been teased here in the great Northwest with glimpses of spring, only to be surprised by a sudden snow shower and/or lower than average temperatures. So it’s still soup season here. And there are some soups that are best in spring, when the ingredients are at their peak — think fresh pea and…
If you really don’t like paying taxes, why not move to a country where they don’t have them? I think that in most of those countries, there is a serious lack of services and many of them don’t seem to have any government to speak of — think Somalia. If that doesn’t appeal, maybe you…
Really kind of you to come out in favor of giving journalist Roxanna Saberi the chance to defend herself on her appeal of her conviction for spying. Pity you didn’t let her present a defense in open court from the start. But that would have just shown off that the charges were bogus and your…
I spent the last four days at a hotel about 10 miles from my house. I was in Seattle, at the lovely Grand Hyatt hotel for the annual conference of the Association of Healthcare Journalists. Because Husband and I decided several years ago to become a one car family (she said with a hint of…
This morning I read what will undoubtedly be one of the last issues of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a daily paper that has been published here in the Great Northwest for nearly 150 years. Over the past few months, the paper has gotten smaller; the news more aggregated and less local; the great columnists have left….
I read the police report today. Don’t go back. You deserve someone who knows that you don’t punch out someone you’re in love with. And shame on all your “friends” who are in any way encouraging you to get back together. Is it really that nice at Diddy’s house that it makes up for being…