HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?
There it was, shunted to the back of a shelf in the thrift store. It was only a few inches high, taller than it was wide, but you couldn’t help but notice it. Prim and… Read More »HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?
There it was, shunted to the back of a shelf in the thrift store. It was only a few inches high, taller than it was wide, but you couldn’t help but notice it. Prim and… Read More »HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?
I sat in the stands under the big red and white tent that’s been part of the Vancouver summer landscape since 1990. Unfurling before me was over two and half hours of Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer… Read More »LINE PLEASE!
There’d been several men doing work in the basement. Later in the evening, she did a quick inspection of the area. She noticed that one of the basement windows was unlatched. No one in her… Read More »TRUST
How cookies are like sex: Of Triple Double Stuf Oreos and other progress traps. A warning: My mind wanders. If I take my eye off it, my mind can get lost in a souk of… Read More »PROGRESS TRAPS
There are literally thousands of how-to videos online that demonstrate the exquisite origami skill required to fold a fitted sheet. Here’s one of the best:
Is 70 the new 60? Is 60 the new 50? Were our parents older than we were at the age we are now? This, you gotta watch!
There are few things more intimate. Few things are as revealing. You can play tennis with a virtual stranger. You can have dinner with an acquaintance. Many’s the relationship launched over coffee. Convening for drinks… Read More »THE SOCIAL SCIENCE OF ICE CREAM CONES
Here’s proof that tomato is actually a fruit! INGREDIENTS 5 plum tomatoes ½ cup sugar ½ tsp vanilla ½ tsp cinnamon ¾ cup mascarpone ⅓ cup whole milk 2 cups good quality vanilla ice cream… Read More »MASCARPONE TOMATO ICE CREAM
My mom likes to cook. On our weekly trip to the public library, I’d peruse Nancy Drew mysteries while she’d rifle the Time Life cookbook series on world cuisines. She’d thumb through the pages of… Read More »GOOD INTENTIONS GONE AWRY
My right arm is pretty much totally out of commission. I have a giant bruise blossoming on my shoulder. My left arm has its own complaints. The wages of curiosity …. Tucked in off of… Read More »I CALL SHOTGUN