My daughter didn’t just make lunch for me yesterday, she put together a beautiful feast.
Look at this! Apple fritters! OMG, these were DE-licious. (And sparkling cider there on the left.)
Two types of sandwiches! Egg salad and cucumber. Plus, a beautiful Polish (or Ukrainian, maybe) salad. And another (!) dessert—strawberries with Balsamic vinegar and mascarpone. Heavenly!
And [...]
I happened to catch part of Fresh Air in the car today, on my way to meet a friend for lunch. Terry Gross was interviewing Brett Morgen, director of the new documentary Chicago Ten. Now this sounds like an excellent movie. Listen to the interview, or read a little about it, here.
At the end of the interview Morgen says:
The film is [...]
Listen to this:
Okay, I admit it—I grew up isolated from reality; in my whitebread SoCal suburb, the outside world may as well have been the moon. Not surprisingly, then, musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron didn’t find his way onto my record player. I hadn’t even heard of him until recently. Makes me wonder: What else have I missed?
Obviously a precursor to rap, which I’ve never gotten [...]
I finally read Doris Lessing’s Nobel lecture. I had been intending to for months, but kept getting sidetracked; you know how it is (yes, it’s that attention thing mentioned by Jacoby in the We Are Idiots post of a couple of days ago). My belated reading resulted in a timely convergence because Lessing reiterates the point made by Jacoby, [...]
I don’t post entire articles here, out of respect for the limited time (and attention!—ha!) of my readers (all two of them), but this is so important that I am posting the entire article. Please, please read it. And share it. I think it will hit home for you as it did for me.
The Dumbing Of [...]
You’ve gotta watch this. I know, there are so many gotta-watches, but this one really is neat:
And here’s another If This Doesn’t Just Take the Cake contender. This one would make even the most spoiling parents feel better about themselves:
Oh, she feels sorry for those of us who aren’t gorgeous. What compassion!
SALEM, N.H. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was about to deliver a line that has become a centerpiece of her campaign since her loss in Iowa.
“Everybody in this race is talking about change. But what does that mean?”
“Iron my shirt!” yelled a man, who stood up in the middle of a jammed and stuffy auditorium [...]
A tall man with red hair and humongous shoes was arrested yesterday and charged with attempted homicide. His victims are numbered in the billions and can be found all over the world. His weapons? Trans fats, saturated fats, sugar, artificial ingredients (including flavors and colors), preservatives, etc. I admit: I’m a health food freak. What [...]
YogaMum tagged me back! Here’s a marriage meme for Valentine’s Day.
1. Where / how did you meet?
At a coffee shop. He sat down at my table. We talked. We went out for dinner. We saw each other again and again and again. (There’s a longer version, but this is the short, sweet one.)
2. How long have you [...]
coming from Jan at Yearning for God.
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Okay, on the pile of books waiting to be returned to the library, on the floor, behind my chair . . . Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle.
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Continuing description of a poor illegal immigrant from Mexico searching for his [...]
