We live in a pedestrian-unfriendly city.  For example, we have a road on which there is a sidewalk on one side. As you are walking along, the sidewalk ends and resumes on the other side of the road.  There is no street at which to cross, and you have to vault… Read full post »

You've been a good friend, and we had to kill you.  I don't want to glorify what we did.  We killed you.  Well, the vet did, but for hire.  We will say that we did it to make you more comfortable, but we still did it, and it wasn't an easy… Read full post »

I didn't know it, but I am simultaneously disgusted by and fascinated by caterpillars. I still get the squirmy-geebies when I think about hearing tent caterpillars falling out of the trees around us in Capitol Reef, so when my husband brought in three swallowtail… Read full post »

This post is not for the "Atkins" of heart.

I love starch. Seriously, the only non starch item I can't live without is salt. Maybe water. So, really, I guess, my perfect food is gnocchi. Potatoes and flour. Just enough egg to hold them together.… Read full post »

Come on, it's not that hard. I never understand it when recipe books tell you that you can go by taste when cooking, but when baking, everything needs to be carefully measured. That's hogwash. I only measure the first time I make a complicated… Read full post »

What can I say. I get wound up. Tightly. I spend a lot of time at work, or at home, trying to fit more stuff into my day, tightly packing every moment into whatever time I have. (I'd say that I was tesselating chunks of time, but I don't… Read full post »