I am so ready for this holiday season to be over. I’m ready for it to be January 1 and to start all over again with a new year. It’s a very rare occasion that I get sick – maybe once every year and a half. I’m just getting over being sick now, it’s the […]
Věra and I went to Amsterdam together, in September 2006, for 2 nights and 3 days. I had never had a group of girlfriends before Prague and I’d always wanted to take an all-girl trip. A group of girls, renting a car and driving to Italy or some such. But no one ever came through […]
And yet another thing to rain all over my Christmas spirit. This morning, first thing upon waking, I reached over and grabbed my phone to check email. I don’t normally do this, but I was checking for a work related email. The very first email at the top of my inbox was from Karel. Karel […]
I’d posted this on my “professional”/public blog and thought it worth posting again here. I am not a fan of Dooce and haven’t been for quite some time. There. I said it. Publicly. And I know I am not the only one. There are a couple of blogs that I don’t like much and yet […]
Gosh. I haven’t written about food in ages. I guess I’ve been too busy cooking it? I’ve definitely found my style – it’s hearty, simple, farmer’s market type food. I’m at a loss as to how to organize all my favorite recipes, which is why I used to index them on an online recipe blog […]
There are many parts of Seattle – so many of them not on the beaten path for tourists who come here. It’s a shame, because downtown & Pike’s Place are such a tiny little sampling and barely give a taste of what Seattle is. The first area that Mr Nikki and I ventured out to […]
I haven’t posted any pictures in ages, though I’ve been taking thousands. And I still have to post about my incredible Michelin Star restaurant/Spain experience… Sigh. And there was Thanksgiving – we picked up our pastured turkey at the farm (it had just been killed and processed super early that morning). Of course, the gizzards […]
On a lighter note. Yesterday, I found myself in the bathroom putting on a rubber glove to flick poop off of a cloth diaper, into the toilet. I am still thoroughly dedicated to our use of cloth diapers – for the past… I don’t know how long… 9 months? – we use only 7 disposable […]
In theory, I’m psyched about Christmas – it’s Nugget’s first real Christmas and I’m thrilled to create Christmas memories for him. In practice, I’m having a really hard time getting into the Christmas spirit. I’m having a hard time even just writing about it, quite frankly. Some days are better than others, some weeks are […]
Ok, so I mentioned this briefly a few weeks ago, but I’m going to say it again and expand a bit. A couple of weeks ago, I went and got a physical to have my vitamin D, cholesterol, etc checked Mostly just out of curiosity. That, and, I knew that a friend of mine was […]
Warning – you may find this post to be a bit of a downer and if you’re easily triggered by talk of things like suicide, move along. And NO! No, I am not writing a post about me feeling suicidal, don’t jump to conclusions. But it is about my memories of someone else, so like […]
I think I miss my blog. I just realized it’s been going for about 10 years now – though I’ve removed or drafted most of the older posts. I regret that I DELETED some because sometimes it does me well to remember things. I miss talking about all the stuff I used to and it’s […]
