I figure if Pierre Herme can have a collection, so can I.
Here’s the Obama Collection 2008. My guess is that if Mr. Obama becomes our next president, I’ll make more collections based on his likeness. Depending on the times we’ll live in, the colors, the shapes, the imagery maybe different. We’ll see.
The difference between this [...]
My wrists are killing me.
I first noticed pain in my wrists and fingers way back in 1992 when I started out as a copy editor at Dow Jones. I’ve had repetitive stress injury ever since. The cure: stop typing. The dilemma: I have to work. The secondary dilemma: it makes baking and decorating a major [...]
Colorful, I said.
A few weeks ago, I watched a wonderful audio slideshow on the New York Times website in which photographer Damon Winter narrated a series of shots he took while following Barack Obama. What I found most interesting was a comment Mr. Winter made about Obama; he’s so distinguishable that even when his face [...]
Friday, Friday, Friday. The financial sky is falling on our heads. I woke up this morning to the Prez using big words like “precarious” to describe the state of the financial markets. I don’t even want to joke about whether he knows what that word means.
It has been a very busy week here, and instead [...]
When the government announced its bailout of AIG I felt a strange, familiar queasiness permeate my body. In the days when I was in the trenches of business and financial journalism, this was the kind of event that would keep me at work for hours on end. AIG is huge. Massive. Had AIG been allowed [...]
Okay, so here’s the cookie that started all this decorating mania. Christmas 2001. We were newlyweds, and spent the holidays in our tiny little apartment. In Wolf’s family, there has always been a beautifully decorated gingerbread house that he, his brother and sister would smash after Christmas, an act that signaled the end of the [...]
Hey there. It’s me, Nunuk. I think you’ve seen me here a few times. Don’t remember? With these good looks, how could you forget?
Mari gave me permission to paw the keyboard today, which is nearly as sweet as gnawing on a knuckle bone. Sure beats watching a political convention. I watched both conventions. Big [...]
One morning in front of the idiot box (uh, that would the TV…) I was flipping channels when I came across a cartoon featuring a green gorilla. Naturally, I thought, cookie design.
Then I thought of Dian Fossey. And that film, “Gorillas in the Mist.” And then I thought of ballroom gowns.
Ballroom gowns?
Years ago, I was [...]
Earlier this week, I was about to start my usual W&W (whine and worry) dance. You know, the one I bop to when I’ve almost convinced myself that I’ll never work again. I had just heard back from a company that was interested in hiring me to write product descriptions and other marketing collateral. They [...]
I almost forgot what it’s like to do this. But I’m back!
It’s Labor Day here in the U.S., a day when we’re supposed to take it easy and not labor. So, no, I didn’t labor in the kitchen and bang my head against the wall trying to come up with a new design. Today’s cookie [...]