Category: Blog

places, memories: Prague

Rainy days with a sick kid at home mean cleaning and organizing! In going through & organizing all my photos, I came across several scanned images, including these scans – business cards from places I visited or frequented while living in Prague. Lehká Hlava (“clear head”) was a lovely vegetarian (actually, if I remember correctly, it […]

puppies!

Inaugural post should include a puppy, no? Meet our puppy, you’ll be seeing a lot of her. She’s a black/tan/silver German Shepherd from outside of Boise, ID. (Long story, but not really.) If you ever need to bring someone ’round to the love of dogs, this is the dog to do it.

emerald city

I’ve found my home.  I love Seattle only second to my favorite European cities – Amsterdam, Prague, Lisbon.  But since living in Europe isn’t feasible right now, Seattle is, by far, my #1. Originally, we’d talked about living here for a few years and I was pushing to get back to the northeast as soon […]

in lieu of not saying much… a song of the day!

I’ve stopped and started a “song of the day” thing on this blog a million times over the years.  I’ve been sharing songs back and forth with my new Norwegian friend, so now’s as good a time as any to start again.  Especially seeing as it’s that time of the year where people don’t do […]

Virgin

I have a ball of dough sitting in the oven, which is turned onto “warm,” with a red towel over it and it is absolutely killing me to not peek at it over the next hour. Today, I did two things that I have never done before.  I clarifed butter and made something with yeast. […]

quotes

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters. – Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire (1694-1778) He is one […]

quotes

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance. – George Bernard Shaw Nothing is worth more than this day. – Goethe Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. – Harvey Fierstein […]

quotes

It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper. -Errol Flynn I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. – Galileo Galilei The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield […]