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Sometimes life gets away from me. It’s kind of like an unruly dog. He snaps the leash and takes off running. I chase after him, the world a blur as it whizzes by… A few weeks ago, I did a post that included quite a bit of food. In that post, I mentioned that I…
So, the fruitcake… Recall, if you will, that this bowl of festivity soaked up its Amaretto goodness in my refrigerator for about two days prior to The Making of the Fruitcake. The actual Making of the Fruitcake went well. I searched for quite some time until I found the recipe that I thought sounded most like…
Hello, dear readers and friends… Yes, I am still alive. I know I have been “off the grid,” here for a while. It really was unintentional. I posted two sort of gush-my-heart-out posts right after the events of Newtown, CT a couple of weeks ago and then…well, I just felt kind of off. I had…
I just finished reading today’s news…not that I don’t already know what’s going on. The faces of the Sandy Hook victims on my screen actually startled me and brought instant tears to my eyes. But we refused to turn on the television or boot up the Internet with our daughter anywhere close enough to absorb one…
Of course, the Nation and the World’s eyes and hearts are turned to Sandy Hook, CT today. Like everyone, Fab Hub and I would like to know why…what causes something like this to happen? But there is no answer, no explanation, nor will there ever likely be – at least not one that satisfies. Zilla…
Now that the Rotten Cats are blog stars, they’ve decided they would like to be featured more regularly here on the blog. They brought their demands to the table and we sat down this evening to negotiate terms. Their terms were simple: put us on the blog or we’ll claw the carpet. Too little, too…
The Saturdays in our life are widely varied – sometimes we run errands or go grocery shopping; sometimes we go hiking or on a little day trip somewhere. But our favorite kind of Saturday is a day where we do absolutely nothing in particular. Fab Hub and I are pretty much homebodies. We aren’t huge…
Sunday was the second Sunday of Advent. It also happened to be the second night of Hanukkah. Ours is a two-faith home; Fab Hub/Dad is Jewish and Zilla and I are Catholic. At first glance, this is quite a disparity. But not as much as you would think.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, I did not fall off the planet and into a black hole. And despite the fact that I really hate when I hear myself say “I’ve been busy” in response to a question about what I’ve been doing or how I am, the truth is that we really have…
When met with a strange-sounding statement or something he didn’t quite understand, the Fab Hub will often ask the speaker, “Your what hurts?” It gets a laugh – or at least a quizzical look – every time. So when I saw a headline at MSN.com the other day began with the question, “What’s a Yurt?”…
