Hello,

I've realized that I have outgrown this forum. I am going to abandon this journal. I'm not sure whether I'll abandon my life online, but it's possible.

I have made many good friends here. If you would like, please leave me your email address in the permanently screened comment box, so that we can keep in touch.

xo
Jenny

After checking out the antiques mall in Cambridgeport, we were walking through Inman Square and happened to find a box of free stuff on the street. Among the used textbooks and kids' clothes, there were two cobalt blue Le Creuset pans in very good condition: a chef's pan (without a lid, but I can probably find one somewhere), and a pour-ready ( Read more... )

Oof, I just ran for about a half-hour, with a few walking and water breaks in between long spurts. It wasn't as difficult as I had worried it would be, especially since I haven't run since our move ( Read more... )

This weekend, I visited my parents in Rhode Island. It was great to see them. A trip to the beach proved disappointing as fog rolled in only an hour after our arrival. Oh, well. A bad day at the beach is still better than a hot, sticky day in Boston.

I roasted tomatoes on Sunday using this recipe. It's a surprisingly easy preparation. This ( Read more... )

FreeCycle never ceases to amuse me. People will ask for the most outlandish things! There's one woman who posted to FreeCycle Boston wanting a small barbecue grill and a sewing machine! A few months ago someone posted a want-ad for a KitchenAid standing mixer ( Read more... )

What's your favorite emoticon? I like this one:

:/

It reminds me of Kogepan.

Where are you from originally? Do you think you'll ever move back home to be closer to family? How often do you see your family each year? I'm genuinely curious. I feel as if my family is scattered all over the place. I live close to my parents and elder relatives, but so many family members are elsewhere and it feels funny and hurts my heart ( Read more... )

pharminatrix got me thinking, in a recent post, about authors whose work interests me but whom I haven't remembered to put on my list of Authors to Read. When I was in high school, I had a dog-eared, several-pages-long list of authors to read, mostly culled from reading the Sunday NYT Book Review. I'm still upset with myself for losing the List. I don't know ( Read more... )

I'm reading Czeslaw Milosz' ABCs right now. I just finished Sister Carrie a while ago and needed a break from fiction because that novel was too affecting and sad. I'll go back to Dreiser when I'm ready. I look forward to his work with determination ( Read more... )