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We love Washington, DC.

Since we're lucky enough to have friends who live there as well as family in Baltimore, we visit often, usually on the summer school break. We've become accustomed to slogging through the nasty humid boiling hot weather,… Read full post »

Kissing by the fire

Cloaks gape to the spitting rain

Your gaze, so far away

Scene 1 - Big Box Store

I was looking at sporting goods one Sunday afternoon. For once I'd left my son home with his dad and was enjoying a little alone time - pathetically enough, spending it in the aisles of cheap imported merchandise rather than at the library or coffeeshop, but… Read full post »

Might be useful for the turkey-hating carnivores, this week...here's a crockpot recipe with lots of room for improvisation.

Inspired by this yummy recipe and remembrance from CharlieL and the fact that I wanted some nice, slow cooked pork and my mail-order Hatch green chile powder hasn’t gotte… Read full post »

There's nothing like a well seasoned iron skillet.

 I'd dispense with every other pot and pan in my kitchen (except for my crockpot, possibly) as long as I could keep my smooth, perfectly preserved antique 10-inch iron skillet. I cook many different things in it - frittatas and tortas, of… Read full post »

The picture taking shape does not resemble the image on the box.

 

I turn a piece slowly, feeling the edge.

 

Uneven. Rough.

Does it deceive? Or hold a clue?

 

I turn it over. A picture there too.

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(Read Part One)

So, I thought to myself, let me get this straight. We've known these people for a few months...we have a great time together...and suddenly they want to MARRY us? Really?

They hadn't been sending any signals that I could see. But, for a sexual omivore, I can be quite dense/…

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We've had a hard time making friends here, on the whole.

My dearest mate and I come from the same farflung tribe of friends and lovers who shared similar worldviews, values, and life experiences, which can be summed up by: live weird, die weird, and leave a weird looking corpse, or… Read full post »

I've been reading OS for a long time now. Eventually I signed up, because I wanted to be able to rate and comment on the stories that most moved me (and there are many) but it felt cowardly to jump in that way.

I've always been a reader, and a writer,… Read full post »