The Stages of Grief

I've made plans to return to El Salvador for New Year's, which had become a sort of tradition over the past two years. I was assuming that I would not return this year at that time because... well, if my husband is not going to be there, why would I go? I was telling my cousin that the holidays were going to be difficult for me because going to El ( Read more... )

I have been cooking like a madwoman....

I can't wait to be around lots of people so I can cook for a group and not have to eat leftovers for a year afterward.

Chicken and dumplings tonight... and they were goooooooood.

Those are leftovers I don't mind eating!!

WOOOHOOOOOO!!

i went to the store today and they had this pack of 6 turnips for next to nothing, so i picked them up.  i wasn't sure what i was going to do with them exactly.  i'd played around with roasting root vegetables and had 1 success and 1 failure and, since my last attempt was my failure, i wasn't too keen on roasting them again.  i had some parsnips ( Read more... )

By no means have I been writing a lot lately, but I have been writing more regularly than I have in the past three years or so.  Most of that writing has been done on a blog I started about my upcoming move to El Salvador.  At this point, it's mostly exploring my emotional state and all of the random things I'm having to do in order to make this ( Read more... )

...McCain and his hatchet mom VP nominee are hoping to expose the "real" Barack Obama to the people of America; but what they are really exposing is how morally corrupt McCain has become. And how complete has been his transformation from a noble reformer, willing to stand up to his own party when it failed to meet his moral code, into an ignoble ( Read more... )

Hilarious

why the hell does that crazy bitch keep winking at the camera??

excuse me while i puke.

today, one of my students said that she thinks obama is the antichrist. honestly, i thought she was just exaggerating because she supports mccain. she wasn't. she was completely serious and does not want mccain in office either. horrified and intrigued by such an amazingly ridiculous statement, i took the bait and asked her to explain. evidently, ( Read more... )