Yearly Archives: 2010

Oh Yeah…Bread

Sometimes I think I’ve figured out a technique for making bread.  This is the right way, I say with confidence.  Then I slap myself upside the head because I’m obviously wrong.  I used to create steam in my oven with

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Handwriting

Here’s a question for you:  how often do you change your handwriting?  Sounds like an easy question until you start paying attention to how you put pen to paper.  In the last month I’ve changed how I write my lowercase

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Shop Class as Soulcraft

When I was twelve I made a pair of mirrored wood sconces in shop class.  My teacher was a massive figure who looked like Mr. T’s older brother and had only one speed: deliberate.  I imagine if you cut your

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Urgent Hair Update!

Toddler Harbat’s hair over the last three years has been a definite conversation starter among strangers.  Recently it’s undergone an amazing growth spurt, but just out the top.  Teens these days with a surplus of haute contempt, black fingernail polish,

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Greatest Achievement

Before I was a parent I’d hear people say that their greatest achievement was raising a child.  This always struck me as pathetic, that you would define yourself through someone else.  Vicarious achievement has never been my goal as a

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‘Splosions!

I’ve grown up with a love of planes and hope to pass on some of that to my daughter, which is why Toddler Harbat and I went to the Miramar air show on Sunday.  It was foggy, which meant the

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On Children and Animals

If you ever doubt that humans have an inborn sense of compassion, watch a toddler with an animal.  Little kids are inherently curious about animals and I argue that any fear of critters comes from adults and those around them. 

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Dressing Up

I have many, let’s call them, “eccentricities”.  One is that I like to dress up.  As Fernando Lamas says, “It is better to look good than to feel good,” and I take that a step further.  When you look good

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Monday Miscellany

My ciabatta is off, and no, that’s not a medical euphemism.  I realize my recipe for no-knead undead ciabatta on the bread page was coming out too dry.  Think, Uncle F$#k-Up!  The hydration is supposed to be 100%.  This means

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Hurt Feelings

Last night Toddler Harbat had a tough time getting to sleep.  I read her stories, then we snuggled until she was just about asleep. “Send Mama in.” This is a standard ploy, even if Mama has already spent half an

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