So the news is all bad: earthquakes and melting down nuclear reactors in Japan; tsunamis; unrest and insane dictators all over the middle east; union busting in Wisconsin. On Tuesday I made a chicken & zucchini casserole, from my Pittsburgh community garden cookbook – the Great Tomato Patch cookbook that of course is on WorldCat […]
Or, as the woman on her cell phone in the ladies bathroom when I got to work was saying, “When I got up this morning there were 6 inches of snow on the ground”. National Weather Services says only 4 1/2. Still. It’s the really heavy packy stuff.
Or, as one of my librarian colleagues calls it, “my new second job.” The city of Madison is still pleased with our Midwestern polite behavior. I made cookies again, oatmeal raison, and I added chocolate chips, using the recipe from under the lid of the box of Quaker Quick Oats that I inherited from Al […]
They’re almost as old as me – Peter Buck, December 6, 1956 | Mike Mills, December 17, 1958 | Michael Stipe, January 4, 1960 | me, August 11, 1955. So, as I told my friend Chris, born in March of 1957, the same as my baby brother, “Well, we never woulda dated in high school, […]
This morning as I was coming out of the bathroom after washing up, a spot of soapy water that splashed on the wood floor somehow reminded me of when my mom lived with me, and it was summer, and it was hot, and it was morning but I wasn’t on my way to work. And […]