1st: There is a time to stop trick-or-treating. Like, when you and your friends aren't in costume and just show up at my door and open your purses and look at me silently. Especially if there is a money clip and two tampons in that open purse ( Read more... )

So, after the Red Sox forget how to hit and break your heart again and your Game 4 ALDS tickets are nothing more than pieces of paper, what do you do? You go look up the refund policy to know when your credit card will stop making all those groaning noises. And you learn that the $27 service fee on those tix is non-refundable, even if the game isn' ( Read more... )

Kudos to Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe for breaking ranks and voting in favor of the health care proposal. Making my home state proud. It still would have passed 13-10 if she'd voted with her party, so it was a principled stand.

"Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it," she said. "Is it all that it can be? No. But when history ( Read more... )

Really, I do things other than take pictures of food in my kitchen. I'm turning in poem #17 of the semester to workshop tomorrow. My teachers this semester are Chris Kennedy, Mary Karr, George Saunders, and Dana Spiotta, which is a pretty awesome line-up. I'm teaching a modern lit course. I'm listening to Four Tet and Red Sox games. Class was ( Read more... )

So I've been messing around with winemaking for about a year. I haven't attempted grape wine (which involves either buying a grape press or using pre-made concentrates--ick), but I've made 3-gallon batches of applejack and barleywine, and am experimenting with some smaller one-gallon batches now. I'll start applejack again next month when good ( Read more... )

Sunday usually ends up being my baking day, where I make more bread-type products than I can eat in a week. Once the oven is going and the kitchen is a mess, why stop? So, I was tired of grading quizzes and a friend called and I decided it was time for a break ( Read more... )

I like food much more than I like politics. I cook and bake as much as I can, using fresh. locally-grown food in season. The House of Representatives recently passed a "food safety" bill that would force small farms and bakers to register (and pay registration fees) with the FDA and be subject to conditions that function as warrantless search & ( Read more... )

My old apartment in Boston was right across the street from Our Lady of Perpetual Help where Kennedy's funeral is going on right now. So glad I don't live there now. Secret Service posted on my fire escape or something.

Interesting & well-written essay/criticism by Courtney Queeney on "Women Poets." Quoted herein: Louise Gluck, Tina Fey, Wislawa Szymborska, Sylvia Plath, and Ali G.

The Kings are Boring: Some Thoughts on Women's Poetry

my sporadic fascination with chickens continues...

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Disco Lies (Freemasons Remix) from Moby on Vimeo.