The cupboard is bare

Angelina has a great post about cooking with what you have on hand and it’s had me thinking about the pantry I want to build when we reconfigure our back entryway someday. My grandmother had a fantastic pantry when I was a kid, but she tore it out and made her kitchen bigger once all [...]

Pant pant pant

Chris and I went to a Mardi Gras party and fundraiser for a group of NOLA displaced musicians — via Habitat for Humanity. A local band, Costly Court, rocked the little catering hall in a strip mall, and people, I danced until my legs turned into rubber bands. The kind of rubberbands you find in [...]

The pot of gold’s at the end of some other rainbow

Since just before the holidays I’ve been trying to trudge my way through the tome Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. It’s one of those books that has sat on my reading list since college, mocking me with its big brainy brawn as I devour my Oprah’s Book Club picks. I don’t put books down without [...]

Planting the seeds of contentment

I’m too warm and lazy to get the camera out, don the winter clothes and schlomp out in the snow to take pictures, but boy-oh-boy is it winter out there! We woke up to about 18 inches and it’s still coming down so I’m going to get to work a little late this morning, let [...]

Plus and Minus February

Oh, goodness. What a whacked out couple of weeks it’s been around here. My goal is to not focus on the negative so I’ve had a hard time coming up with a post when all I want to do is post about the way our life here in sunny and warm Ohio has turned into [...]

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