On this day 24 years ago, my little brother got married. I packed my loose bottom tart tins in with my t-shirts, and called the pediatrician to make sure that my 10-week-old baby, John, was OK to fly on a plane (they said yes, just try nursing him at take off and especially landing to […]
I decided to grill tonight, the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, instead of one of the other days. I’d like to go to Bob Fest tomorrow, kids are here, etc., etc. Last year seemed a bit more festive. Al was back with another camp kid and it was already after the first week of camp […]
First, WiLS OCLC Peer Council. The conference was Tuesday, but our friend and colleague Eric Childress came in on Monday, gave a little talk at the library school, and we took him out for dinner. The Old Fashioned was too crowded, so we went around the corner to Underground Kitchen. Eric, who lives in Columbus […]
And speaking of how time flies …. Yesterday was the going-away party for one of my librarian friends. He’s moving back east – he’s also from Pittsburgh – to work at Longwood Gardens, a botanical park in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, built with DuPont money. I’m starting to worry that it’s the beginning of an exodus; […]
Mark’s feet under the coffee table Posted from my iPhone
Last Saturday, the asparagus was in at the farmers’ market. I bought two pounds, and I also bought a chicken from Matt Smith. I roasted the chicken in the oven on timer while I went to the protests. A couple days later, I roasted the asparagus, too, and we ate one pound of it as […]
Resin Adirondack chairs Today was a furlough day for us lazy, overpaid public employees. We spent it stimulating the economy. First, we went over to a cool vintage furniture and reupholstery place on the east side, and made plans to get the wood love seat reupholstered, and the cushions from the lightning bolt couch upstairs […]
Black bread with butter at work For the next installment of bread-a-week, I wanted to make Russian black bread. I used to use a recipe from Gourmet; it was contributed by a reader, so in the letters section at the front of the magazine. I remember making it when we lived in Chicago, so I […]
So the big day has come and went. It was really fun, and as far as I could tell, everyone loved the food – lots of people came over to say so, and even more telling, not much came back on the plates. So worth rolling strudels till 1:30 a.m. and getting up to make […]
After all the hullabaloo of the wedding (more on that in a minute) we had a nice quiet mother’s day brunch at home, using up some of the wedding leftovers: Broccoli & cheddar quiche – remember I did over buy on broccoli, and the nice 2-lb blocks of Tillamook cheddar that you can get at […]