This morning when I was walking, I was thinking about all those posts I haven’t written the last few weeks. There was the one about the various home repairs we’ve had recently – finally got the swale dug, so maybe the basement won’t leak. I think I might have to get the landscaper to come … [Read more…]
First, I sat in gum on the L to the apartment – I took the bus to Chicago the day before the conference, to spend the night, do a little work, and then catch a noon-ish flight to Denver from Midway. I discovered the gum at the start of my last phone call student advising … [Read more…]
Seems like I’ve been here before … I think in 2007 for the same library technology conference I’m at now, and in 2009 for the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. The Blue Bear is still here, but the sculptor who made it died last month. I started writing this on Friday, in a session where … [Read more…]
A few years ago, our friends the Waismans bought a farm that’s only about 20 minutes from downtown Madison. There, they raise asparagus and pigs and chickens and goats, not to mention also their three kids. David Waisman and I like to joke that their pigs are pork raised by Jews, for Jews. Their first … [Read more…]
Squash, Pumpkin Pies (with marshmallow fluff rosettes, and pumpkin s’more pie with a chocolate cookie crust and marshmallow fluff meringue on top), wet leaves, and my jack-o-lantern pumpkin that I have yet to carve. Well, it’s only the 28th of October. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=full]
Right before I turned 21, I got raped at gun point (well, it was a little, couldn’t have been more than 22-caliber pistol, but it was still a gun, and it was against my head). I was walking home on a July night in Pittsburgh, and I heard boot heels following me, and I speeded … [Read more…]
I normally get my CSA veggie box every other week, but because of rescheduling for TIFF, I got three in a row: Sept. 21 and 28, and October 5. Here’re the veggie lists, courtesy Tipi Produce: Sept. 21 Golden beets with greens, 1 bunch Broccoli, 1 or 2 nice heads Winter squash, 1 medium or … [Read more…]
Normally on Sundays, I wake up and fret and feel guilty and try to decide how long to stay in bed (which is also spending time with Mark) vs. making brunch vs. getting some exercise vs. working vs. doing something creative … Today it’s windy and blustery outside, finally being appropriately autumnal, so I decided … [Read more…]
So I’ve been feeling guilty for not writing and not photographing food and feeling like I must’ve never been this bad before, but I was looking at last fall, and I didn’t even take a picture of the pies I made for Pie Palooza, which (it says on the website) were Gluten-free Corn & Pepper … [Read more…]
The first week was characterized by heat, tomatoes, and Rach was here. Wednesday was Rosh Hashanah and I made challah. I got my annual CSA 25-pound box of tomatoes, and made sauce and blanched and diced and froze a lot of them and also made four trays of oven dried tomatoes. Rach and I bought … [Read more…]