Let’s start with a food review! It’s the whee-ha world of Trader Joe’s frozen “meals”. Up for review is the Butter Chicken which is stamped with the watermark “Authentic Indian Recipe”. Yes, it’s technically true since the original probably also…
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Posted in Products, Uncategorized Tagged with: chicken, fashion, food, microwave, number two, rice, sandals, socks, trader joe's, trains
Demise of the Pumpkin
“Yes, but the end was extremely sudden.” Extra bonus points for whoever names that quote. Clue at the end. The end was sudden and, evidently, quite violent for our jack o’ lantern. The children got agitated by its sunken features,…
All Things Dead
Bonus points to anyone who can name the movie from which today’s post was taken. Clue: it’s over 25 years old. I love how nature can take whatever you’ve done and make it more interesting. Not to knock Child Harbat’s…
Laying In for the Season
I’m a creature molded by my upbringing, my genes, and the long trail of forebears who had a harder life surviving and passing on all they could so I can be alive. One of the vestiges of this pre-programmed history…
Your Reality, My Reality, Her Reality
Do you remember your dreams? I do, in resonant detail. I can remember dreams from childhood, and a strong or disturbing dream can echo throughout my day, which begs the question: where in “reality” do they exist? My reality is…
Plan Your Costumes Now, Kiddos!
It’s probably already too late to get the supplies for your Halloween costume. Someone else with superior planning skills and costume-planning moxie already snatched up the good stuff. Just take a look at the wigs we found at Goodwill this…
Posted in Parenting, Products, Uncategorized Tagged with: CH, costumes, go-go boots, halloween, number two, parenting, wigs
Justice!
Remember my post a while back about barking dogs in our neighborhood? We have one nearby in particular that barks at everything that passes by in the street, from a roving pack of street thugs to a blowing leaf or…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: backyard chickens, barking, chickens, cujo, dogs, hens, laying eggs
Buying Art
I’ve never thought about buying art in the same way I’ve never worried about the price of gold or considered real estate in St. Bart’s–it’s a rich man’s hobby. I thought that to buy art you had to be nursing…
Caring for Another
We are social animals–we relate more to chimpanzees as they survive through amity than in the hawk soaring alone. Necessary to our survival and growth as a species has been our willingness to care for other living creatures. Short of…
Posted in Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged with: animals, backyard, caregiving, CH, chickens, evolution
Finding Your Roots
In elementary school we were encouraged to wear the ethnic costume of our ancestors. This is the true measure of how ours is a country of immigrants–everyone can always say they are from somewhere else, with the exception of the…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: ancestry, bagpipes, Balmoral, CH, heritage, kilt, MacPherson, Robertson, scottish, smallpipes
