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The Way I Roll 19 Jun 2013 | 11:58 pm
So... M. is writing a story. And part of the story takes place in a private train traveling from Chicago to Ann Arbor. And as he was writing this part of the story, he realized he needed a sketch of t...
Salad notes 29 Apr 2013 | 07:10 am
Around here, I'm usually cooking for a pretty insistent meat and potatos and chocolate cake crowd, which sometimes doesn't leave much time for my favorite part of the meal: salad! Thus, the evolution...
Wherefore miso soup for breakfast? 23 Apr 2013 | 08:01 am
The short answer is this: during an otherwise completely miserable three weeks spent in a tiny business hotel on the outskirts of Tokyo in the middle of February nearly 21 years ago -- accompanying M....
These days... 22 Apr 2013 | 02:39 am
1) Knitting. Dish cloths, mostly, but I have some modest ambition toward socks. Maybe Christmas gifts? And if that works, I think I might be making a sweater for myself. It's been a while since I mad...
"If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"... 6 Apr 2013 | 11:32 pm
... must be the death of many good blogs. For the record, it's been a crummy, no-good, awful, miserable, downright terrible winter. There has been too much illness, too much driving, too much worry, ...
Saving graces 19 Mar 2013 | 11:59 pm
Or... the things that have kept me going over the past six weeks (and 4200 miles): Books: Narcissus and Goldmund: The first novel by Hesse that I've ever read, and it probably won't be the last. Gol...
At the cafe (again)... 15 Mar 2013 | 10:56 pm
Three lines from a conversation overheard while trying to edit a batch of MBA admissions essays: 1) Well, it's your life, of course, and you are free to do with it what you will. (Repeated, in severa...
There's a Mercury retrograde going on! 3 Mar 2013 | 08:45 pm
Have you noticed? Around here, there's the usual mayhem... a power outage, missed calls, lost e-mail, a barrage of communication from people I haven't heard from in years who are all amazingly enough...
Today, at the fish market 23 Feb 2013 | 08:13 am
I am in a rush, as always, but settling into the party mood that is always on offer at the Monahan's counter on a Friday afternoon when I notice the woman next to me, a blonde ringer for my friend Ann...
Today, at the fish market 23 Feb 2013 | 08:13 am
I am in a rush, as always, but settling into the party mood that is always on offer at the Monahan's counter on a Friday afternoon when I notice the woman next to me, a blonde ringer for my friend Ann...
