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Memorial Day Weekend
You know it’s been a pretty good Memorial Day weekend when:
The weather’s been perfect, ranging from the mid 60s to mid 70s. Even a welcome short burst of heavy rain Saturday afternoon, causing friend C. and me to duck into stores along Centre St. instead of the planned walk around the Jamaica Pond. Trying hats [...]
When The Weather Gets Like That, You Have to Get In It
Feeling pretty lucky to have that back porch these days– with the electric grill primed up for use, the small patio table wiped down (man, all that pollen), and the potted plants–a hanging fuscia basket and a surprisingly healthy honeysuckle plant–rounding out the sense of home extended outdoors. A grilled dinner in the early [...]
Flour Bakery in the South End
What’s that idea? About the ‘third space’ that Starbucks capitalized on during their huge expansion (though much slowed now) over the past ten years or so? The idea that every person typically needs three such places with two of them already, in most cases, determined. Space 1: Home. Space 2: [...]
Results Show for Vegan Iron Chef Competition
When the spread between you and the winner is nearly 50% of your total accumulated point value, you know you’ve been beat.
So S. and I, despite what I’d like to call a heroic last meal attempt with the preparation of a variety of the vegan spring roll recipe (c’mon, I even put enoki mushrooms in [...]
Certainties
You feel more grounded after really good days like these. Certain.
Reading the longer books aloud with a warm-bodied nephew and niece early in the morning. Crouched together and leaning back against the bedboard, small heads resting on your chest and small hands reaching up for ears and the softness of hair.
A breakfast at sister’s [...]
Fall Desserts
I admit (what is it about all these admissions?) that I’m also an msn.com story-clicking junkie. The front page of Week in Review and Today’s Picks just has that right mix of interesting and short stories–the celebrity wonderwall, sports updates, insistent suggestions of how to navigate the financial markets, the salacious pull of relationship [...]
Vegan Iron Chef Cookoff- Meal #2
So S and I didn’t replicate the success of the first meal two weeks ago, getting only one vote for best dish earlier this evening. But those gathered around the table at my friend C’s house did seem to like the romesca sauce an awful lot, with that nice balance of taste and nuttiness [...]
Good to Gather over a Shared Meal..
With the official arrival of the fall season, it’s that much better to be gathering in friend’s homes for individually cooked and collectively shared meals– even if the theme of the bi-monthly dinner plans over the next few months are, sigh, vegan-themed. C, this is all about you and your threatening manner… heh.
Still, [...]
From Beach Plans to, well, some Back-to-School Shopping
This Friday, the plan was all set, as further finalized through some surreptitious writing in the new academic plan book. (That kind of writing, I find, is absolutely the best). We wanted to make sure to get at least one full summer beach day–the destination planned to be Horseneck Beach, at the western [...]
Taking it (and the Lobsters) Easy in Midcoast Maine