I don't usually make pie. I make apple crisp instead, or perhaps cookies. Pie crust doesn't seem worth the trouble, especially for a fruit pie. When I used to eat pie somebody else baked, I would often just eat the filling. (ETA: Except Fairion's pies. It turns out she bakes with coconut oil ( Read more... )

The word "opiate" does not mean "something that makes a person behave badly." It does not even mean "something that makes a person behave badly, and is also hard to stop using." Most especially, it does not mean, "something that makes a person agitated and short-tempered, and is hard to avoid because it's so pervasive ( Read more... )

Strobes don't bite most people, so he can get away with that. Usually. Last weekend, it went bad ( Read more... )

When my brother was 3, and I was 5, we were at a big family gathering where we overheard our great-aunts talking about his long dark eyelashes.
"Gorgeous lashes like that are wasted on a boy ( Read more... )

and move like lightning. I zoomed down to NYC Friday morning, to go to Redbird's family seder Friday afternoon. (It is their family custom that "the first night of Passover" lasts until the second night begins, allowing a 24 hour interval in which to schedule each seder. As one of the aunts lives in a distant suburb and does not drive at night, ( Read more... )

I had been expecting a nephew in about a month. (My expectation is as nothing, when compared to my sister-in-law's, or even my mother's.) Now it looks like my incipient nephew is working on becoming the last baby born in 2006, or perhaps the first baby born in 2007. I've been talking people down from the family worry-fest. The baby has to come ( Read more... )