Today's Friday Five are called "Gouda nuff" and address my greatest culinary love: cheese. Cheese is my "if you could only have one food on a desert island" pick (never mind how I'd keep it nice!), and a cheese board is my favorite thing to bring to a party. My mom and I could make a satisfying meal on Kraft Cracker Barrel sharp cheddar cheese and ( Read more... )

The most recent Friday Five are about doing and being one's best. I'm not sure anything means anything anymore, but I suppose "trying hard" would be my M.O. even on the deck of the Titanic, so here are some answers.

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This week's Friday Five were about tardiness and its opposite number, timeliness (on-timeliness?). In my prime, I was never the Queen of On Time ... but I was also not the worst, and I've gotten better with age. For more, see below.

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The most recent Friday Five take Star Wars as a point of departure. I am Trek all the way, but I did get the references.

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The latest Friday Five return to a theme first explored three years ago ( I posted answers then, as well): words in other languages that have no English equivalents.

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Last Friday's Five asked about the old homestead. I'm not a homebody, let alone a champion homemaker, so this set is a little out of my wheelhouse. Still, I've got answers, if you don't mind reading them late.

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This week's Friday Five, in contrast to last week's (which I've only just posted), didn't take long to do. Easier on the reader, I suppose ... or do you prefer it when I ramble?

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Last week's Friday Five were a spin on the 1986 Robert Fulghum classic All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. The sometimes maligned (as the question-meister notes, for being "simplistic") but nevertheless quotable (e.g., in sermons) text argues that the best foundation for life really is the one laid for us by the grown-ups back when ( Read more... )

Today's Friday Five are about incompleteness. No, not the kind of incompleteness that plagues consistent systems; just the kind that plagues my life (which, in case you're new here, is *not* a consistent system).

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September 6th's Friday Five were about "third places." The concept seemed familiar to me, but I don't think I'd ever heard the term. Explained the question-meister, "In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home (the first place) and the workplace (the second place). Examples ( Read more... )