Today marks the start of breast cancer awareness month. Over the next month we’ll see a flood of media information reminding women to have mammograms. We will also be asked to participate in a variety of events, donate money for breast cancer research, and spread the word about the disease. As a now 12-year survivor…
I love taking pictures, but I am terribly lazy about what I do with them afterwards. After all the efforts I go to to capture just the right mood/perspective/light, the results languish on my PC and (mostly) never get another look. Which is a real shame.
One thing I really hate about department stores (the larger ones, anyway) is that they always put the cosmetics and perfume departments on the ground floor as you enter, and wherever you want to go, you have to walk through a cloud of floral mist that just about gags me to tears. Yuck. But in…
Every day during my freshman year in college, 12 noon marked a magic time. A huge group of us would crowd into a friend’s room in our dorm and watch All My Children. I’d never seen it before I went to college, and haven’t watched it on a regular basis since then. Still, I felt…
All things being equal, I have to wonder – seriously, wonder – whether a cookbook can possibly be worth $625. Plus tax. Okay, details. If you haven’t heard of the Modernist Cuisine, it’s the baby of one scientific millionaire, a team of chefs and scientists, and millions of dollars. A certain Nathan Myhrvold got into…
I went out with a friend yesterday and we shared a Wild Crepe. “Wild” is a bit optimistic, actually – there was nothing wild about it except some Kahlua mildly drizzled along with the chocolate sauce. But it was good, with bananas and cantaloupe, whipped cream, and ice cream wrapped inside a nice thin crepe….
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DFPMnsZMFYKurt Weill is probably my favorite composer ever. And while I like tons of his songs, today’s earworm is Youkali. It’s in French, so I can’t even tell what it’s about. I just think the music magical. – Rike Horstmann
I’ll be the first to admit that I have periods in which I eat an incredibly unhealthy diet. But on a day to day basis, I try to focus on including as many nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables as possible to my diet. Recently, I’ve become obsessed with the wonders of greens. Now I’m not talking…
I’ve never owned a pet. I wanted to when I was younger, but my mother said, “Sure, as long as you take care of it.” At which point I thought about it, and realized, no, I don’t really want to get a dog. So I tried fish, which didn’t work because the one snail we…
I can hardly believe the season for my favorite summer TV show – Drop Dead Diva – is nearly over. I’ve read this season will end with the “biggest cliffhanger ever.” Not sure what that will be, but despite my dislike of parts of the last episode (Fred caught Stacy kissing someone else) I’ll definitely…
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