Tag Archives: Food

On Freezing…

I have done a most excellent job of organizing the change involved (on my end) in expanding our life to encompass dad. Shaun has had the much more difficult end of packing up his house (while working full-time) and taking … Continue reading

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Murphy Monday: In Which We Rest…

Murphy is resting from all the recent excitement. What better way than to sleep within one’s breakfast? Wake up. Eat. Zzzzzzzzzz…. Wake up. Eat some more… What better way to handle life as it happens, than surrounded by food? (I believe … Continue reading

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Reason 2,573 I Love My Dog

He is the only sentient being in my house that knows I ate two chocolate old-fashioned donuts while I was supposed to be grocery shopping for healthy stuff like celery and chicken.  It wouldn’t even cross his mind to rat … Continue reading

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Eat Like the Wind!

My life is hurtling ahead of me, just out of reach, and I’m running to catch up.  If  I can’t catch it, I’m going to start throwing rotten fruit at it in frustration. And probably eat lots of highly sugared … Continue reading

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Spring, the Musical

This is for folks still suffering with the white stuff, and/or eternal rain. Can you hear the birds?  Feel the yank on the lead rope as your normally obedient horse tries desperately to lunge at the lush green stuff? This … Continue reading

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When Compassion Meets Passion

You get a man like Narayanan Krishnan: CNN video Feeding the Hungry, Nourishing the Soul (embedding is disabled, but you will be glad you clicked, sat through the ad, and watched.) Most of us know this with our animals, but finder … Continue reading

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How I Ended up Naked During a College Final Exam

I may be remembering this now from going through old photos of a younger self.  Or it may be fever-induced memory from the flu. I know it’s every school-attending person’s recurring nightmare. But. It really happened. I had finals. I … Continue reading

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California is Not Getting Slammed With Snow: You Hate Or Love This

Daisy sent me this photo.  She’s looking out of her office window in downtown San Francisco this morning, as the sun rises.  Yes, that’s the Transamerica pyramid. There’s a walnut tree in front of my office.

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We Visit The God of Cake, Discover Hyperbole and a Half, and Jane Feels Better About Her Childhood Induced Sugar Traumas

In the nobel cause of providing humor to fight the common cold, we’re cross posting again today, going to the hilarious blog, Hyperbole and a Half, to read about: The God of Cake My mom baked the most fantastic cake for my … Continue reading

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We Have Whack

There’s a lot of psychological theorizing out there, about why someone’s whack might go out.  There are the straightforward reasons: death in the family, jerk in the family, owning a bathroom scale. But usually, it’s more amorphous.  Something along the … Continue reading

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