On my way home from the podcasting conference in Chico, CA I had a longer than planned layover in Los Angeles, so I decided to see if I could find something decent to eat.
Unfortunately every “restaurant” in the terminal (what an apt name for anything connected with hurtling through space while over 30,000 feet […]

Judging from the title, you may think I’m writing about peanut butter. Alas I am not.
What I have to relate concerns cornbread. Specifically, some very inadequate cornbread I had for lunch today. “How can cornbread possibly achieve inadequacy?”, you might wonder. Before today, I would have wondered myself.
I had a lunch meeting at […]

Yesterday felt like November in Bellingham. Gray skies, a chill in the air, and a constant downpour of rain.
I usually love those days. They’re a time for curling up in front of a fire with a good book or snuggling down with the kids for afternoon movies.
The thing is, I wasn’t quite ready […]

When Lisa suggested meeting at BlogHer to sip martinis, it brought this to mind…Perfect by Jim Coudal. Jim is a fellow martini worshiper whose devotion to our favorite libation is clear. His recipe describes the mixing process as “the sacrament”…and for good reason. This martini is the most transcendent elixir you’ll ever experience. Move over […]

Have you ever pondered the life of Celery? Come on, admit it, you know you have, you Saucy Minx! Celery is the shy herbaceous wallflower cousin to flashier vegetables like arugula and cauliflower, with their showy leaves and spikes and flowering veggie nonsense. Deeply introspective wise Celery is often misunderstood. “Straight,” “dull,” “rule-following […]