I found this ad while cleaning. They baby-proofed the house and parent-proofed the credit card.  They’re saints, these credit card companies, protecting us from ourselves. But this is actually what caught my attention.  Put aside the fact that it’s a picture of a model holding a model in a pretend kitchen.  Just look at this [...]

Early this morning I had planned to write about winning.  After all, who doesn’t love to win?  And later today many of you will win Girl Scout cookies, just as soon as I find a fair and equitable way to draw the names of a hat. I’d like to use my dogs and video their [...]

I have some early settler tendencies. I bake bread, usually kneading it by hand because, well, there is no reason.  It’s in the same category as…  It’s in the same category as nothing.  It’s perfectly acceptable to use the mixer or food processor to knead your dough, but hand kneading feels more authentic for some [...]

This isn’t about people who are deeply affected by the weather, clinically affected.  This is just about those who don’t like the damn rain. And those who are the opposite of them. When I graduated from college, I focused on two cities: Los Angeles and New York.  This was in April 1997. That spring, in [...]