Because I telecommute to work, I rarely use my car, so the recent spike in gas prices hasn’t hit me nearly as hard as friends and neighbors who have to travel to an office everyday. Still, filling up the tank on my tiny little Honda has become quite the eye-popping trip. Whereas I used to [...]
There seems to be this grand debate about whether the U.S. economy is in a recession. Economists say that in order for the ‘r’ word to be official, the economy has to have undergone two consecutive quarters of decline. Apparently, that has not happened. And this morning, I read in the Wall Street Journal that [...]
I’m putting together another audio slide show for next week, this time about this charming man and some model trains.
A script for a walking tour I wrote was recorded yesterday, and I’m just barely managing to contain my excitement about it. This has been one of the more interesting and rewarding projects I’ve worked on [...]
I have found the best recipe for Chocolate Chip cookies: Maida Heatter’s Positively-The-Absolute-
Best-Chocolate-Chip Cookies. Dame Heatter couldn’t have called it anything else. One bite into these lovelies. And fuggedaboudit.
The first time I heard of Maida Heatter was when I discovered Cathy’s blog about two years ago. I had just put my first site (minus [...]
Years ago, before Oprah became the deity OPRAH, she told her audience that one way of really knowing how your friends are doing is to peek into their linen closet. She said something to the effect of, if their linens are fraying and thinning, you know things aren’t going as well as they seem. Personally, [...]
I feel like I’ve been under the weather for the past few days. I’ve been busy. And eating a lot of instant food. Stuff my mother-in-law calls Bachelor food. Since my husband has been away for the past two weeks, I call it Bachelorette food. I’ll tell you more about this stuff tomorrow. Why? Because [...]
Did you watch the men’s Wimbledon final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal? What a cliffhanger. I don’t remember watching such an amazing match ever. And I barely know the rules of tennis. Some of the shots those guys made were superhuman. Unbelievable.
It didn’t occur to me to make the trophy a cookie design until [...]
On my early morning walk today, I noticed something peculiar. Well, I thought it was peculiar. It’s Independence Day, but I didn’t see many flags in front of people’s houses. We don’t have one (because Wolf has hidden it somewhere in our garage, and if I ask him where it is, he probably won’t remember). [...]