There are few songs that can make me cry, and I'm not really the kind of person to make musical recommendations given the subjectivity of doing so, but "Emily" by Joanna Newsom is the only song that not only made me cry once, but daily for several months over the course of a particularly challenging winter a couple years back. While liking Joanna ( Read more... )

I was writing a little piece about Chicken Cordon Bleu for my site when this little thing slipped out accidentally. It's a little too long to include as an anecdote, but it made me chuckle and I thought I'd save it on LJ.

While I cannot speak any language but English, I have a fantastic French accent. This is because, as it turns out, my entire ( Read more... )

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