Monday, December 29, 2008
Or, the Christmas Card That Ate My Friends
It’s that time of year again– the time when I start fuming about Christmas cards.
I love sending Christmas cards. Sure it’s time-consuming and tedious, but there is just something about putting together a good card with some fun photos and remembering your friends and family at the holidays, [...]
Thursday, December 25, 2008
…and they wrapped them in swaddling cellophane and laid them in a cardboard cradle.
“And lo the angel of merchandising appeared to them in an ad and said unto the lowly housewives on the suburbanized hills:
“Herk, go ye to the store called Joann, with an address on the Post Road in Milford,and there ye shall find [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Of course it isn’t.
But it is, really. Because Colin and I are spending Christmas, each of us–for the first time in over 18 years– at home.
Here’s our first Christmas tree together. We got it pre-cut this year from a great little family-owned, fifth generation nursery called Q-Gardens. Next year we’ll probably cut one down ourselves [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
Or, The Continuing Saga of the Toast Rack
In a new series I am offering, English Things I Miss, I recently I opined about the great mystery of the toast rack. A mainstay of the British Bed and Breakfast, I found this piece of kitchenware a great and strange object. It is one of the first [...]
Filed in British Culture, Consuming Things, Details, English Thing I Miss, Food and Drink, Giving, Gordon Ramsay, London, Old Friends
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Tagged British Culture, Kansas City, love, toast racks
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Whenever I stop myself from trying too hard and whenever I look and see what it is I am searching for, it Is almost certainly the long, wide flat spaces of home, the first.
It is easy enough to reason away life in the mid-hinterlands. How can I ever get the culture or the speed I [...]
Saturday, December 13, 2008
I love flying out of small airports… There is nothing better than the 15 foot walk from entryway to checkin. Don’t get me wrong — I still reminisce about the Heathrow days, when long security lines snaked around the coffee shops and purse boutiques, and that was even before you the entered security rope maze. [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
In the middle of my procrastination/break from grading, I visited my email and Google reader and found good stuff from two different women in my life… oh they make me SO crazy!
First, there’s HEATHER! Heather the green wonder-mama, now appearing in ANOTHER feature near you! I’ve done some freelance work for Heather, so she’s nice [...]
Filed in Activism Means Act!, Art, Consuming Things, Details, Eco-Q&A, Life in America, Media, Writing
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Tagged beauty, CT Green Scene, eco, ljcfyi, local
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The good news is that I have completed a semester’s worth of teaching.
The bad news is that I must somehow complete a semester’s worth of grading, if I can, in four and half days.
That includes those grades that will, inevitably, be less than a ‘C,’ thus requiring these students I have come to know and [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
I was having a perfectly lovely lazy Thanksgiving when I notice a young teeny bopper-ish boy performing during halftime of the game that was on TV. He was pretty cute, I thought. Dark curly hair, sweet mischievous smile, eyes that crinkled to a squint when he grinned. In the photo, here, it’s the one on [...]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
I’ve been getting attached to things that aren’t mine anymore, things that have moved on, most especially since I have been reading the “American Heritage Cookbook and Illustrated History of Eating & Drinking.” It was published in 1964 and is chock full of old American recipes, including the famous Chicken Corn Soup and Fastnachts that [...]
Filed in Deep Knee Bends, Dream rambles, Food and Drink, Life in America, Love-ish-ness, Music, Old Friends, Writing, books
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Tagged American Heritage Cookbook, Leaving Song, lonely, Mary Chapin Carpenter
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