Days Like These
I’m going to look for reasons to feel amused and joyful. And dogpile on that like it’s my job.
Confusing the Spell Checker
The average adult has an active vocabulary of an adult is 20, 000 words. This year, I want to confuse the spell checker – I want to add words to my personal dictionary.
Thursday Throwdown: 90's College Circuit
This playlist is the cinnamon rolls and warm socks for a winter’s day. It’s cheery enough to encourage you through the 17th day of overcast skies, but not so high-octane that you’ll want to, say, clean your basement. All said, I just like these songs in a background music to buoy my mood when it’s […]
Wreathed
One day I had a wreath, and the next day I didn’t. And then I found my wreath on someone else’s door. What’s a girl to do?
Foodie Friday: Breaded Veal/Chicken Cutlets
If you’re going to go to the effort, you might as well make a whole bunch of these. If your house is like mine (or my parents, or any of my aunts or cousins), they’ll disappear right from the plate while you’re making them and from the fridge if you’ve made them ahead of time. Make lots.
Thursday Throwdown: Catharsis
Sometimes you need some cathartic songs after Christmas in the same way you need to watch ALL the Hallmark Christmas movies *before* Christmas. May the catharsis lead to good things for all of us.
Ode to my Little Relative
When I was 11, my sister was born – a big gap, to be sure. My grandmother called her my little relative, sincr we didn’t know whether she was a boy child or a girl child until she was born. My mom called us her only children, because we really didn’t share a phase of […]
