Day 20
What exactly is it about online friendships?Is it because you can edit what you say before hitting that Send button? You can be as smart and witty as you want to be, because you have a moment to think...
View ArticleDay 22 - The Wedding Version
Me.Four small boys.Seventy-two hours.H out of town.I am afraid it's going to be very Lord of the Flies round these parts for the weekend.It's going to have to involve an awful lot of alcohol.Or...
View ArticleSunday break
We've been having a very nice weekend.Friday night we all watched a Thomas movie (even the big boys liked it), and then when the Littlers were in bed, me and Primo and Seg sat around eating Oreos and...
View ArticleA Homemade Life - Molly Wizenberg
I like food. I like cooking it, I like eating it, I like talking about it, and I like reading about it. I like food memoirs. I love MFK Fisher, John Thorne, Laurie Colwin. I enjoyed Nigel Slater’s...
View ArticleDay 27, Day Before NJ edition
On today’s upcoming vacation menu, for (chewy) starters: some nonfiction. William Langweische’s American Ground: The unbuilding of the World Trade Center. I have been a fan of Langweische’s writing...
View ArticleYou can go home again, but it won't be pretty...
The house is tan now, not mint green.The huge locust tree out front, the one that constantly dropped branches and that my parents worried would fall on our roof with every storm, is gone. As are the...
View ArticleNobody bakes a cake as tasty as a Tasty Kake...
It was an oddly blissful week, full of relatives and old friends.Also, cocktails, lots and lots of laughing, and, um, yes, nostalgic eating of panzarottis and cheese steaks and peanut butter Kandy...
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Everything is never as it seems...
Books I bought today:The Baker's Apprentice - Judith Ryan Hendricks. I read Bread Alone because I picked it up off a shelf of a vacation rental a couple years ago. I really enjoyed it. It was comfort...
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soapbox post
This annoys the everliving shit out of me.I was going to write a whole diatribe about why Americans think everything needs to be Americanized, and why the general zeitgeist seems to be that anything...
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There is no proof, Septimus. The thing that is perfectly obvious is that the...
I am almost done The Baker's Apprentice. It was exactly as I expected. And now I am about to embark on a quest for the Mazurka bar, which the bakery in the novel sells. Let the Great World Spin is...
View Articlethe elusive mazurka bar
I just finished The Baker's Apprentice by Judith Ryan Hendricks. Wynter Morrison makes a return, and now she's co-owner of the Queen Street Bakery, still mixing up delicious-sounding loaves. Into the...
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dancing with the stars...
Despite photographic evidence to the contrary, my dad was light on his feet. He danced like a dream. It seems he could make anyone look good - when he and my mother danced together, they moved as one -...
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"You must move forward."
One of the lovely things about vacation is that I can catch up on my reading. I have been slowly working my way through Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, and, as it is a book that deserves to...
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I packed six books for a week of vacation, and read four. Whew, that was close. What I packed:The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ– Phillip PullmanThe Lonely Polygamist– Brady UdallLet the Great...
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The Countess by Rebecca Johns
Rebecca Johns's new novel comes out today. Link here.Go buy it. And if you live in Chicago, go to her reading, because I don't and I can't. And I am sorely disappointed.Sulzer Library, Lincoln Ave. 7...
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Chi Chi Chi, le le le, viva los mineros de Chile!
"All 33 miners have been rescued. All 6 rescue workers have reached the surface. The mine is clear."
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Books I'm reading or have read, summed up in one telling line...
Room - Emma Donoghue.“I’ve seen enough of Outside. I’m tired and I want to go back to Room.”All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost - Lan Samantha Chang.“For each of us, he understood, is born into our own...
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There is no trick, only treat.
From left to right: Terzo as Jack Skywalker. You've never heard of him because Terzo made him up, and he apparently wears blue Christmas socks with fisherman sandals and has powdered sugar all over his...
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