Monthly Archives: August 2008
Banana Coffee Cake
Update: This cake is freaking delicious. I made this Friday night and by Sunday morning it was almost gone.
Another Friday night, another cake. This one is entirely my own creation. If anyone makes this, y’all owe me five cents.
Banana Coffee Cake
Cake2 ripe bananas, preferably overripe1/4 cup vegetable shortening1/4 cup oil3/4 cup sour soy milk [...]
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow?
I have issues. Weird, shallow issues. When I think about the amount of mental energy I have put into my hair -thinking about how long it will take to grow it to whatever length, figuring out how it would look at some shorter length, wondering how my life would be different if it didn’t take [...]
Mmmm… Chocolate Cake
I am very, very happy about the cake I made on Friday. It’s one of Scott’s mom’s most-requested recipes for picnics and fundraisers and that sort of thing, and I’ve been looking forward to giving it a try for a while now. I was skeptical, as it originates from a church cookbook and I am [...]
Jewish Geography
This morning I had an appointment with our accountant* to make sure that my finances are all IRS-grade kosher for my new ventures. After the business was done, it came up that we went to the same elementary school, which is a terribly mundane thing to have happen in the greater Pikesville metro area, but [...]
It's All Relative
I realize that maybe a parent covertly moving to another town is not the craziest thing ever, but there is a lot crazy around how I found out about it. It’s really the circumstances around it that make it crazy. Somehow, over the past several years, a sort of haze has formed around very [...]
I win!
It used to be that in a “Whose family is crazier” competition, I had little to add. Eccentricities, sure (Spies! Geniuses! Monkeys!), but crazy, no. How times have changed.
This afternoon I found myself asking, for the second time in four years, how when I talked to my father just last week he could have forgotten [...]
A Bunch of Stuff Happened
Two months in one paragraph: I had a health scare which turned out to be a big lump of NOT CANCER, I quit my job to work at home, a big storm put some holes in our house, we went to gay bingo, I started a meditation practice again and scheduled myself for Vipassana, partied [...]
The Pledge