Kind of a different one for me, because I didn’t make a Christmas dinner, or a Christmas brunch either for that matter. Nothing like last year’s $159 Christmas roast that looks like we ate with Yorkshire pudding and three veg: broccoli, purple cabbage and creamed spinach. Here’s what happened. There just weren’t very many of … [Read more…]
This time last Sunday I was out for a walk with Rachael, about to come home and start brunch prep. The house was full of people, family here for the wedding. On Tuesday we got another house guest, a medical student here from Malawi for UW’s Global Health Institute that my neighbor who’s a pediatrician … [Read more…]
Last Saturday, and I haven’t even blogged about it yet. Here are a few pictures, and I’ll try to do it justice in the next post. The overleaf, word press featured image, is Emma’s bouquet, which is my iPhone wallpaper right now.
Friday night – takeaway Chinese, from this funky place in a nearby strip mall that we’ve been going to for years. Jen and I ordered something like $140 of food – I mean, there were 9 of us … but the fridge is still full of cardboard takeout containers with an inch of food in … [Read more…]
My little brother turned 60 on Monday. Here’s a card Chad & Lea made: Yep, that’s him. My friend Terese is the same day as my brother and the same year as me, so she turned 62. I got a cake from a local, regular sugar and flour type, bakery, and added marzipan carrots and … [Read more…]
It seems a little weird to say I didn’t cook much this week when on Monday I prepped breakfast for 40 at the food pantry at the community center, and then went back to serve it on Tuesday morning. There were breakfast burritos and blueberry muffins. I made 40 burritos and 42 muffins and they … [Read more…]
George Harrison sings for John I can’t believe I’m so old I have a kid who’s 30, although I’m actually old enough to have a kid who’s 40, if I’d started sooner. I made a temporary special blog banner for the occasion: They almost never looked like this – John’s only about 19 months older … [Read more…]
Today when I was driving from Madison to the Harvard train, I felt all jumpy and didn’t trust any of the other drivers. I kept thinking someone would just pull over and cut me off – what’s to stop them? I was starting to feel better after a truck signaled to change lanes, and it … [Read more…]
Friday afternoon I had just finished saving all three of the syllabi I have due on Monday, and was wondering if it was time to check with John & Megan if they were still coming to Madison this weekend as planned, when John called to say they were not coming – because they had gotten … [Read more…]
… is kind of my new phrase, when stuff goes awry, when I’ve had just about enough, with apologies to all the Pete’s I know, although I think at least one of them would like being the epigram of gone awry. As in, “Oh for Pete’s sake”, I have been trying to write this thing … [Read more…]