I would say I have missed the deadline for my book, but it is more positive instead to say that I've managed to get it changed to a new date that works better for me and that the publisher can live with. New date is 1/30 ( Read more... )

I am a fan of kugels.  For those unfamiliar with them, it is a wonderful example of Jewish cuisine:  essentially, noodles baked in eggs to bind, with other ingredients to make the dish either savory or sweet. I first met both kinds of kugel at a delightful seder I was guest at years ago, and have adopted this into my own "simple comfort food"  ( Read more... )

I am burning the midnight oil not because I'm a night owl (tho I am), but because I am in the umpty-umpth hour of a write-a-thon trying to get a massive freelance writing gig off my desk and to the client sometime on Thursday.  I commited to something that, once I got into it, turned out to be around  *60* hours of work (!!!) rather than the under ( Read more... )