This Sunday we hosted our best party ever: great food, fun company, relaxing by the pool, and significant seismic activity. But let me start at the beginning. Hot cross buns Hot cross buns! They were time-intensive but very delicious. …
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Winter War draft
CHAPTER 1 October, 1938 Near Pullinlahti, Finland With a snap of his pole, Magnus knocked a pillow of snow off a branch. Hitting the ground with a whump it revealed the river ahead, a line of India ink…
The Experiment Begins
Today I began an experiment on my blog. I am releasing the first chapters of my unpublished book. I will post one or two chapters at a time each Friday so I can gather feedback on the story. It’s a…
Playing
When I was young I remember there were only two things to do: playing and not playing. Not playing involved things like sitting at the table and wiping your mouth, struggling with unwieldy backpacks of textbooks, and using your foot…
Sourdough and Whole Wheat: Strange Bedfellows?
Last night I put together a batch of 40% whole wheat sourdough rolls and one batard. Because I’m a nincompoop I forget to get parchment paper so I had to lay down a carpet of flour to proof the bread. …
Ahhhhh…
My test is over. Last Friday was arguably the most difficult of the seven professional licensing exams I’ve had to take. I won’t find out if I passed for 6-8 weeks, but for now I am out of study/stress mode…
That One!
This is how it goes getting Toddler Harbat dressed in the morning: “Do you want to wear this dress?” “I wanna party dress. The red one.” “How about this green corduroy one?” “No, that one.” “This one?” [holding up red…
Salaam!
For years I’ve been driving past a grocery store near our house. It underwent a major renovation recently but we still hadn’t been inside. One day, my wife and I said. We went this weekend, expecting it would have some…
Wait…I’m Confused
I want a rideable mechanical elephant. Because I dreamt I had one last night, a realistic skin covering an aluminum frame, and a pair of hand levers to drive the legs forward. “Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?*” I…
My Daughter’s Social Calendar
This was a busy three days for Little Miss Social. I mean me, of course. But Toddler Harbat was also quite the social butterfly, hitting two parties this weekend, the farmer’s market, competing in her school’s Olympics, going to a…
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