10 things from my brain today

Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 9:21 | Category : Blathering, Gratitude, Politics, Questions, Snarking & Snipping
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Random thoughts and observations after returning from my morning walk today (which is saying quite a bit considering I wasn’t thrilled with the idea to begin with…):
1.  Holding my coffee cup under the drip as the coffee is brewing makes for an excellent rich roasty first cuppa in the morning.  The second?  It has to be […]

Pigs, Lipstick, and Other Shiny Objects

This is not a light-hearted post, so if you’re just not in the mood to be real, that’s fine.  But right now,  I’m thinking that blogging about my patio flowers, or thoughts about floor covering choices for a remodel, or how much I’d like to mail my flea-ridden pets to Siberia […]

Pundits and Forum Whackos

Friday, 29 August 2008, 22:06 | Category : Blathering, Politics, Snarking & Snipping
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It’s kind of sad how days go by and this space sits waiting to take on the color of my days.  It waits quite a bit now, but not by design.  I haven’t lost interest, though.
Most of the time, I feel like one of those clowns that shows up at a kid’s birthday party who works […]

In Vogue with Armpit Flaps

Once in a while, if I’m waiting in the line at the grocery store long enough, like others, I scan the covers of magazines.  I glance past Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and Food & Wine, because I have those and others at home in some state of being dissected, stickered and splattered with my latest gastronomical […]

Yeah? So — what of it?

Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 14:36 | Category : Detours & Diversions, Nonsense, Questions, Snarking & Snipping
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Last week, one of the bloggers I’ve come across in foodland wrote a post inquiring about what readers like or don’t like in a blog.  Although I always enjoy this particular person’s posts because she’s extremely smart, very opinionated, and an excellent writer, they’re unusual in that they aren’t always about recipes and food porn shots.
No, […]

Un-jetlagging

Monday, 14 July 2008, 20:48 | Category : Fab-ology, Gratitude, Snarking & Snipping
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We arrived back in Paradise last night at about 7:00 after an 11-hour flight from Rome to Cincinnati, then yet another delightful 5-hour flight just about as far as one can go in a Southwesterly direction in these United States.  Long.
Did I say long?
Way long.
I peeked out of my left eyeball in the taxi on the way home […]

That Summer Feeling

Pelicans
It’s the last day of school and because 99.9% of us have spent time in a seat in a classroom counting the days and minutes and seconds until we could say, “It’s the last day of school!” we know it’s a special day.
And then there’s another portion of us who stood in that classroom in front […]