So, I feel like I haven’t been recording the things on my blog that I normally do. I mean, in theory my tagline is “reflections on life & food”, so I like to write about what I’ve been watching and reading and cooking and eating. But it’s winter and it’s too dark to take pictures … [Read more…]
On Sunday I made brunch and some granola, and a chocolate cake from the Snacking Cakes book (Yossy Arefi) that Rach gave me for Christmas. I’d actually made another cake from this book, a cream cheese berry cake, when it was posted on Epicurious in November. By the time the cake was done it was … [Read more…]
We needed water softener salt, so I decided to make the week’s shopping expedition a Costco run. And I figured I might as well go ahead and get the cookie ingredients that I get at Costco, like the 36 pounds of butter that even at Woodman’s gets me a lot of WTF looks, but at … [Read more…]
Sometimes negative is positive. Like Saturday morning when I got my most recent Covid test results back as negative – that’s good because it means I don’t have the virus, even after working the election almost 2 weeks ago. I waited to give it time to incubate. Sometimes positive is negative. Like this whole election … [Read more…]
Before the election I was so worried about it: what the outcome would be, working the polls, supervising a very large new staff, getting the polls open, keeping everything legit, would I get Covid from working?; that I had a hard time thinking about and scheduling things for the after. Then, after was the long … [Read more…]
I started writing this on Thursday afternoon, when like everyone else, I was waiting to hear the outcome of the election, and I didn’t really wanna talk about it, much, except to share my bafflement and horror at the fact that the election is so close. What does it say about our country that for … [Read more…]
What RBG is saying is everything I most believe in about Judaism, and why I light yahrzeit candles for my parents – it’s what you do here that counts, not the promise of the afterlife. I wanted to find the outro music but all it says on the website is “UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST: (Singing in … [Read more…]
And I’m not sure the one after’s starting any better. Last week started on Tuesday because of the Labor Day holiday, but even though it was a short week I feel like more bad things happened than good. And, I started writing this Saturday and am just now finishing the following Tuesday. It was the … [Read more…]
I got this in my email this morning. So, I went into a little Jerry Garcia, G. Dead memory lane. I made this Days Between graphic my facebook profile pic, just like I did last year. I didn’t even need to re-download it, I already had it in my photos. I listened to Days Between … [Read more…]
At the beginning of this week, most mornings when I first waked up, I didn’t feel quite right. Headachey, stuffed up. I’ve been asking Mark, “The virus, summer cold, the heat?” and he always answers, “The heat”. We’ve been in the midst of real “hotter than July” – highs in the 90s everyday, and humidity, … [Read more…]