I started writing this on Sunday – I had some kind of idea about writing about weekend cooking – but here it is Tuesday and still not done. Not even not done; not even close. I’ll see if I can remember at least what we ate: On Friday, I had a normal work day – … [Read more…]
Throw Back Thursday on Deb’s Lunch – a photo my cousin sent me, of me lying on the glider at my mom’s mom’s house in Cincinnati, with a book. My arm looks lumpy because that’s a bracelet, and I think I must be 7 going on 8, because I’m not wearing glasses. It’s the summer … [Read more…]
Our first meeting of the day Monday included breakfast. It was a pretty good breakfast, just a little too early in the morning for me. I took a half slice of French toast, a little 100-calorie cup of Yoplait peach yogurt (that was too gloppy and tasted mostly of the color orange rather than peach, … [Read more…]
On Saturday, we both had to be at the conference pretty early. We took the T to South Station, and started over the bridge to the Convention Center. I peeled off and took the stairs down to Flour, a little bakery where we’d gotten lunch (bacon sandwiches, basically) the day before. Well, seemingly little – … [Read more…]
Here we are in Boston for the winter library conference. I am not getting covered by work for this one, but my plane ticket was really cheap, less than $200, and I have my hidden perc – Mark works for the library association and gets a comped room so as long as I stay with … [Read more…]
Things are off to a great start: Sunday was the start of the last season of Downton Abbey and the Packers loss on Sunday – which might’ve gotten them a better playoff game opponent, the NFL team from Washington DC, as Al schooled me to call them, rather than their racially insensitive name. We had … [Read more…]
[portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled showcaps=true] Usually, I really like the week between Christmas and New Year’s – I’m off, I can do stuff like set up a new blog, or go to museum shows, or at least sort out bills and papers. This year, I had a cold and the UW semester went ridiculously late – the … [Read more…]
Happy 2016!!