It seems a little weird to say I didn’t cook much this week when on Monday I prepped breakfast for 40 at the food pantry at the community center, and then went back to serve it on Tuesday morning. There were breakfast burritos and blueberry muffins. I made 40 burritos and 42 muffins and they … [Read more…]
Originally the plan was that I would cook John a birthday dinner in Chicago. I had even sent a set of menus for them to select from. But then it turned out that he was coming to Madison on his birthday instead. And then it further transpired that his friend Jake, who has the same … [Read more…]
George Harrison sings for John I can’t believe I’m so old I have a kid who’s 30, although I’m actually old enough to have a kid who’s 40, if I’d started sooner. I made a temporary special blog banner for the occasion: They almost never looked like this – John’s only about 19 months older … [Read more…]
For most of last week, I had this vaguely embarrassed, staggering around incompetently feeling. I think it was in part because I was still getting over writing my annual report, reading my bad evals from last year. And I think teaching face to face makes me have that flop-sweat feeling more than teaching online, because … [Read more…]
…wearing red in solidarity (although I am at University of WI so it’s just as likely to be seen as badger red), and drinking instant coffee that I already had in my desk drawer, so I’m not going out and spending money. And here’s a slideshow of vacation minder messages, how people say they’re not … [Read more…]
So this has been a week of not very much cooking, although of course we ate. I had been in Chicago over the weekend and I thawed out some enchilada casserole with ground turkey and black beans, in case Belana & Mark might eat it while I was gone. Which of course they didn’t, so … [Read more…]
It could’ve been foreshadowing of what was to come in my yoga class, where of course the teacher was going to talk about well being. Or it could’ve been the weather – which is back to “normal” for late February in Wisconsin, cold, snowy, sunny. Or maybe because I was happily thinking that plans I’d … [Read more…]
I thought of this on Saturday while walking to yoga … remember the end of King Kong, “It wasn’t the airplanes?” 1933 Original 2005, with Jack Black So, I want a shirt with Hillary Clinton’s face on Kong on the Empire State, maybe a little like this David Bromberg album cover: And then the caption … [Read more…]
I guess we’re having March in February – warm in the day time, getting down to freezing overnight. Everyone looks so happy, but I just don’t like it. There are fat, fuzzy buds on this magnolia tree I walk past. True, it’s in a sheltered spot that gets a lot of sun, and it’s next … [Read more…]
My sister in law, Jennifer Dixon, has a fondness for hearts, not ♥ kind of hearts, but thump-thump, lub-lub, real hearts with veins and valves. [see also Tour de Jen] Here’s one on our fridge: But I especially like this collaboration by Jen and my brother, that must’ve been a Christmas card with books for John … [Read more…]