Entries from November 2009

November 18, 2009

Arm-wrestling my inner June Cleaver.

Though I’ve always considered myself the polar opposite of June Cleaver, lately I’ve been a cooking WIZARD.
Well, maybe “wizard” is overstating it a bit, since I’m just following a magazine’s plan for a month of simple dinners. But for a gal whose previous culinary stylings were limited to heating and serving whatever I happened to [...]

November 3, 2009

“Fireflies” Obsession: Art & Life Intermingled.

At 40, I know I don’t exactly have one foot in the grave. But having walked the Earth for this long, I do have a better appreciation of the here and now. (Better than the clueless, flaky 20-year-old me, anyway.) I now understand that the “here and now” will be “done and gone” just as [...]