This was intended to be a Tuesday Ten, a list of ten items on any topic I choose. But I couldn’t narrow my list to only ten. Seeing as how the alliteration still works, I’m now calling it my Tuesday Twenty. Here are some of the best official offbeat holidays of this month. These areContinue reading “Tuesday Twenty: September’s Best Weird Holidays”
Category Archives: Food
Peaches and Politics
I spent two hours in the blazing sun today, sitting at a table for the Alexandria Democratic Committee to hand out voter registration forms and other information about November’s election. We’re a politically savvy neighborhood, so we generally find that almost everyone we speak with is already registered — but there are always a fewContinue reading “Peaches and Politics”
Screentime for Teens
I wrote this one yesterday and forgot to post it then. My son’s girlfriend is here, and they’re playing video games. They do that together a lot — that, and watch television. On one hand, they seem to spend way too much time staring at screens, which feels to me like a bad thing. OnContinue reading “Screentime for Teens”
There’s a Holiday for Everything
Today is International Ragweed Day. I didn’t know that until a few minutes ago, but my nose knew. I have to wonder who decided we needed a holiday to honor ragweed, which is a bane to so many of us. And it’s celebrated on the same day as the Great American Picnic Day, because nothingContinue reading “There’s a Holiday for Everything”
Administrivia
Yesterday was a day filled with boring but necessary administrative tasks. You know the kind: the forms to fill out, the appointments to make, the schedules to shift, the approvals to get. The stuff that has to be done, but is are either so dull or so annoying that you resent having to spend timeContinue reading “Administrivia”
Italy 2012: Day 14
It was my last full day in Italy, June 7, 2012, and I planned to make the most of it. Before checking out of my hotel in Assisi, I stepped across the street to an olive oil shop I’d noticed, to buy some of the good stuff to take home, since the best quality ItalianContinue reading “Italy 2012: Day 14”
Italy 2012: Day 5
Nine years ago today, May 29, 2012, was our last night together in Florence. I was in Tuscany with a small group of friends from the National Federation of Press Women, and the next day we were to move on to Pisa and the nearby resort town of San Giuliano Terme. Our last day inContinue reading “Italy 2012: Day 5”
Italy 2012 – Day 4
It was really hard to choose an Italy photo to highlight today from the many I took there on May 28, 2012. It was such been a full day. Early that morning, I stopped at a fruit stand in Florence that had the most gorgeous strawberries I’ve ever seen. Then I rode with my friendsContinue reading “Italy 2012 – Day 4”
Bread Line
(This piece is updated from something I posted about 10 years ago on my old Livejournal page.) I bake my own bread. If you don’t know me well, you’re probably now thinking I’m a Domestic Goddess. If you do know me well, you’re probably now chuckling at the thought of me as a Domestic Goddess.Continue reading “Bread Line”
Happy Easter
It’s Easter Sunday. When it comes to celebrating this holiday, I admit that my family is more into chocolate bunnies than church services. While I miss seeing my sisters and parents and other relatives for holidays, it was nice to have my son home for the weekend. I drove down to pick him up fromContinue reading “Happy Easter”
