Last night, Hank took me out for sushi – I know, I know. I ate the vegetable rolls and some lobster. Sigh. What I really wanted was the catch of the day (red snapper). Alas. Vegetable or not, though… oh, sweet jesus. Sushi. I used to eat fried eggs just about every day – I […]
Hank said to me this morning, “Whatever you want to do tomorrow, we’ll do it.” (Which is an odd thing to say, because, really, if either one of us every really wants to do something, we do it. And what I really love to do is never make plans.) However, in the spirit of that […]
I am in St Louis, Missouri, writing you from yet another hotel room and right about now I’m ready to give up this job to be a library clerk or something. No, not really, but after not being home for 3 weeks (working for 2, then a week for Christmas), being home for 5 days, […]
When I was a vegetarian and even when I was a vegan for a few weeks (could never give up cheese and cream for longer than that), I was never the preachy sort. I might have been, but I was too busy fending off attacks from the meat eaters. I never understood why my personal […]
My Christmas is full of funny stories, and that’s in progress. But first: Our New Year’s Eve dinner was nothing if not decadent. I took notes up until dessert so that I’d remember every last bite. We went back to Valentino’s, because I have sentimental feelings for them now (first oyster, the veal cheek, etc) […]
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. […]
I heart Engrish.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. -Swedish Proverb
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.- Andre Gide
