I am not a cook.  I don't even pretend to be one. But I have friends who cook very well, some professionally and some not.

My friends Kat and John have started a new blog they're calling "Flavor Profiling."  Their idea is: discover a new recipe, try it out, and blog about the process.  Sometimes they'll be inviting friends (or people like me) over ( Read more... )

My apologies to my Flist for not commenting on your posts lately!  I have been trying to keep up, though ( Read more... )

You find old friends in the most unusual places; sounds and images bring you back to places you used to be, and sometimes you realize you have missed that sound you haven't heard in two years, or that you miss the people you were connected with the last time you saw that particular object that now falls into your view unexpectedly.

I took a walk on ( Read more... )

I just realized how far behind I am in posting.  There was a weird glitch with either the hotel internet or livejournal (or perhaps both) in Saint Louis that lost a short entry.  Short version of that short entry: I did a little bit of writing, had a great group of people in my class, and really liked the hotel staff.  Didn't really venture out to ( Read more... )

Every now and then it happens -- a dream that is so tied into whatever it is I'm meant to be doing when I wake up that the dream is still remembered somewhat clearly hours after waking ( Read more... )

Here is where I will be this month:

MOBILE AL: flying in Sunday afternoon the 7th; driving out Weds morning the 10th.
HOUSTON TX: arriving Weds afternoon the 10th, leaving Saturday morning the 13th.
DALLAS TX: arriving Saturday afternoon the 13th, leaving Weds morning the 17th (if paragraphs  and cruentum let me, that is!)
LITTLE ROCK AR: arriving Weds afternoon the ( Read more... )

Thursday night I discovered there's a new Tobias Wolff short story collection out.  That really made my night, as I love pretty much everything Wolff has written.  I'll be starting to read that as soon as I'm done with John Connolly's short story collection "Nocturnes ( Read more... )

Eva: Anthonyyy. what's the best way to get rid of fifth graders?
Anthony: I find that hustling them onto a loading dock and pushing them into the recycling truck works best.

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Hopefully, Tom will find that humorous.  Hey, it's better than telling your fifth grader to sprint across the parking lot!  The exchange went something like

Tom:  Aidan, ( Read more... )