Somehow it manages to still be a wonder to me that I can cook meals now. Like, not just in the general sense of “Oh wow, I used to be a really bad cook,” but more recently in the more specific sense of a month and a half ago I could hardly manage to make…
January was so very tough, and one day, when I realized by late June/early July I wouldn’t particularly want to travel, planning a brief beach vacation for the spring helped to get me through a couple of days. And boy did it sneak up on us. Suddenly last week it was time to think about…
It’s been so long I’m not really sure that I know how to blog anymore. How was it that I actually sat down and put organized thoughts on paper several times a week again? So let’s see if I can scratch my way through this. I suppose that if we’re catching up on things I…
Finally finally FINALLY I am liking food again. You never realize how much food surrounds you and how much you think about food until suddenly running those menu plans in your head and thinking about a grocery list or even having your husband say the word “food” makes you have to go throw up. (I’m…
{I figured I should get this up now that it’s April.} {The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz} The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is so different from anything I’ve read recently. It tells the story of Oscar, who was a geeky kid from the Dominican Republic living in the US…