-
Out at the Coast Again
Bandon has a hold on my heart that's hard to top. I love going to sleep with the sound of the surf out the window. -
Never Give Up, Never Surrender
I haven't posted in here forever. I haven't done project blogs (I might start doing a couple here and there for cooking), and I get discouraged when I spend time to craft a post, and get no responses except the occasional f**ckerpicker "correction" on one little thing I got "wrong". :-/ Sorry, it's how I feel. Enthusiastic amateur writer that I ( Read more... ) -
Culinary Symposium 2011
Culinary Symposium 2011 was a blast!!! My class, "English Pies & Tarts", went really well. We were busy the full 2 hours, & I think people learned something new and got new ideas for ways to use & serve pies in their future culinary endeavours. I loved being up in the mountains with cliffs & trees towering over me again - ghod, I miss that from ( Read more... ) -
Subtlety
What do you do with people who don't get nuance & subtlety?
Got one that's frustrating me in my office right now. -
My War on Cynicism
I was talking to my best friend when she was here for a week, and a mutual former friend came up. She still has contact with him occasionally, but she told me that she really had no desire to go actively look him up while she was down because of how he'd sounded in their last dozen or so phone calls. She couldn't quite put her finger on it, that ( Read more... ) -
Something Cute from New Year's Eve
So I was out getting a small ham, the correct brown -n- serves, and the Boston cream pie that happened to leap into my arms at the nearby Safeway that I don't usually go to because they're too expensive and don't generally give out coupons any more...as I was waiting for my postage stamps at the customer service desk, I saw something that just ( Read more... ) -
Happy 2011
Happy New Year: I think New Year's resolutions are silly, and I know it's an artificial point where we divide time into packages, but I *do* believe in holidays. :-) I celebrate every holiday I can find that's for something positive ( Read more... ) -
EOY Approaches
Holidays have been okay.
I wish people would stop dying and getting severely hurt for a while. -
Tied to the Tracks...
...and waiting for the midnight freight to come through, while I sit on the embankment with popcorn ( Read more... )