No more, ‘kay? Oh yeah! And happy holidays.
Sometimes these days the phrase, “Enough is enough,” stays in the forefront of my mind. I stopped watching media coverage of the horror in Newtown within about twelve hours. We were never fortunate enough to have children, though I very badly wanted to, so I don’t have a parent’s perspective on the worst loss anyone […]
Chicken & dumplings
At my friend Marion‘s request, here’s my absolutely bitchin’ recipe for chicken and dumplings. Well, not so much my recipe as Southern Living‘s, published in their 1981 Annual Recipes (yeah, I’m old). I could have taken a picture of this last night, since that’s what we had for dinner, but I didn’t. Next time. (Rich […]
Espresso, or why my kitchen looks that way
This is like mine. You can buy this one for $17 on eBay About a hundred years ago, I was given an espresso machine. It was a little Krups home espresso maker. Back in those days, it was considered a nice enough home machine. I had just discovered cappuccino—in Milan, thank you very much—and was thrilled […]
Chihuly, first visit
My sister Linda and her husband Al made a quick trick up from San Antonio this week to go to the Chihuly exhibit at the Dallas Arboretum. We all four schlepped over there (it’s a 53 minute drive from our house). It’s really spectacular! Well, the Chihuly pieces are amazing, but the Arboretum itself is […]
The wisest hockey columnist
Most of the time I like Brandon Worley and others at Defending Big D, probably my favorite hockey blog. Good information and usually good opinions. (Sometimes their ‘doom & gloom’ outlook gets to me, or they’d be my unqualified favorites.) Picture of Benn & Morrow for no particular reason other than I can and the […]
A quick note about two things
First, if you bought the most recent Groupon for , it expires on Wednesday, so you need to get there in the next couple of days. Second, if you get there in the next couple of days and they’re still getting okra from their garden, order the fried okra. Yeah, it’s not something you’d expect […]
This is going to be easier than I thought
Rich cleaned out some bookshelves over the weekend (oy, huge mess in the living room for a few hours). After going through the giant stack he pulled out, he came in and deposited a stack of those -type books—you know, the big, thin paperbacks that were always some kind of How To guide or basic […]
When I don’t feel like cooking
Cooking dinner can be a challenge. Not that it’s especially hard to do, most of the time—particularly for those of us with home offices, who can slip out to put the potatoes on or turn down the oven when we need to. It’s the dailiness of the thing. Having to come up with something for […]
Make do (even if you won’t have to do without)
I love making do. That might not come as a surprise because I’m a knitter. I always thought that the image of someone who knits was kind of a genteel hobbyist, someone who appreciates serenity and has great patience. My clever niece pointed out, though, and quite correctly, that knitters are more closely related to […]
One of Life’s Little Condundrums: Laundry Imbalance
I just sorted the mountain of dirty clothes in our bathroom (that’s something I tend to let go when I get busy) and I noticed something odd: Rich had two or three sets of underpants/undershirts/socks for every shirt and pair of shorts in the hamper. I haven’t noticed him changing his underwear and socks twice […]
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