Today is the ninth anniversary of my LiveJournal. Almost a decade has passed since I typed my first post here (well, okay, I created it on the 26th, but it seems that my first post was at 2:30 am on the 27th ... I can only assume that I was busy selecting a theme ( Read more... )

I have 48,000 things to do personally and professionally, but my husband surprised me by taking me out on a movie date.

David, sweetheart, you make me so happy.

Needless to say, I loved Julie & Julia.

I'll eat popcorn with you anytime, baby.

Happy nine years married to the love of my life. Even though events conspired so that we couldn't celebrate it quite as we would have liked (being a grownup is highly overrated), those things are transient. What lasts is us.

I love you.

My beloved and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary yesterday. Well, we celebrated a little bit: our big celebration will come this weekend when we try Trois. For our mini-celebration, we stayed a bit closer to home and went for sushi at Ichiban, in honor of the fact that our first date was at a sushi restaurant.

I have mixed feelings about ( Read more... )

This piece by tagplazen really resonated with me; he's a good writer with articulate insights, and he's definitely one of the longtime 'net chums whose opinion I respect. He kindly authorized me sharing this with you, here.
It doesn't hurt that I happen to agree with him about the Nina Simone song, about Reagan, about regulating love, about ... well, no ( Read more... )

. . . of apple, that is. I have mentioned the apple compote we had in South Carolina over Christmas in several previous posts; here's the recipe:

( Apple-Cranberry Compote )

I'm at work. Which is a normal, economically sensible place to be right now. However, the weather outside is beautiful: sunshine, just a little cool breeze . . . I should have a wooden deck or balcony, breathing in the breeze, maybe a cup of tea with me, or going for a little stroll . . . when nice weather strikes in the middle of winter, wouldn' ( Read more... )