Organic blueberries, just $1.99 a pint. A full flat for $16.99. For just one day. Imagine the number of people – a whole city’s worth – eating blueberries on the same day. I could walk in to just about any household, up and down the street, and there I’d find someone in the kitchen with […]
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The Blueberries Were on Sale
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Influence, Psychology, Shopping on June 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Superman and the Ramshackle Winnebago
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Fantasies, Husbands, Masculinity on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A large parking lot was visible through the windows of a trendy neighborhood’s casual Japanese restaurant. This same block sports a high-end Japanese bistro, a total dive bar, an upscale happy hour place, a Mexican cantina, a Polynesian bar with umbrella drinks, a couple of shops, and a Cross Fit/Boot Camp on the corner; although […]
Victory Dance
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Emotions/Inner World, Existential on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When I finished my last hike, I broke into a victory dance. I whooped, pumped my fists in the air, twirled in a couple of circles, did some elbow-hip thrusts (the ones that require the top teeth to rest on the bottom lip, in perfect, politically incorrect “white man’s overbite” style), and yelled out a […]
Guys in the Kitchen
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Family, Husbands, Sons, The Genders on March 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a few hours, I will be on kitchen clean-up duty. We’ve pretty well divided the cooking/cleaning labor in the household, so whereas I’m predominantly the one who cooks, it’s my husband who cleans the dishes. Today, he and my son are cooking, and it will be a feast. A guy feast. Guy meat (Fred […]
Time Off
Posted in Books, Cooking/Food & Wine, Fantasies, Idiosyncracies, Relaxation, Shopping, Television on May 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s amazing how difficult it is for me to do nothing. Lay on a chaise lounge for hours in the sun. Sit looking out over the water. Who are the people who are so relaxed that they fall asleep at the beach? For that matter, people who fall asleep any time after they’ve been up?