Monthly Archives: January 2010

Qu’est-ce que c’est?

For a long time, I thought of myself as a very outgoing introvert. I always did well at parties; if nothing else, I could pick out the other weirdo in the group and find some common ground, even if that common ground was grousing about the other people at the party. As much as I [...]
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Friday Night Bites: Double Chocolate Stout Brownies and a Baking Lesson

I have not done a Friday night bites post in a while, and although it is already Saturday, I had a great baking win last night that I want to detail here. This is a veganization of a recipe my cousin Jill posted for double chocolate stout brownies. I often get questions from people about [...]
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First Class

This afternoon I was jolted by the thought: what if I walk into class tonight and realize this was a huge mistake? That would suck. The icebreaker for the evening was pairing off and then introducing the other person to the class, including something odd or surprising. When asked to reveal something odd or surprising about [...]
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iPad, iPed, iPet

Bits and pieces for today. 1. At first I was completely underwhelmed by the iPad. Halfway through the press conference I was thinking that unless this thing sucks my toes and makes me cookies, it is just a big iPhone with more firepower and no phone. But, the more I see of it the more I [...]
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Misbehaving Tuesday: Retail Therapy Edition

This Misbehaving Tuesday found me feeling a little off, getting kicked around by hormones and the weather. It being Tuesday and all, I decided it was time to bust out the pink wallet, which sounds provocatively euphemistic, but really: I have this little pink wallet that says, “shoe fund” on it, and while the [...]
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Sticky Situation

I have a thing about stickers. Every so often I come into possession of some stickers, usually as a gift, and I never know what to do with them. I think that bumper stickers are obnoxious; while people are entitled to express themselves by plastering evidence of their political and religious inclinations or their sense of [...]
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Heads or Tales

Earlier today Mr. Smile Hon posted this picture on Facebook: Instantly, I was reminded of a moment from high school. I was in a car with members of the calling circle, driving some one home at night. We were driving down a street of split level houses with large windows, when we passed a house with [...]
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Stillness

Today was day five of a seven day hot yoga marathon. There is no one good reason why I am doing this, other than feeling like I need a little detox, particularly before the crazy kicks off next week. I did this once before, sometime last year, and I don’t remember it having quite as [...]
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Not To Put Too Fine A Point On It

They Might Be Giants’ Flood was one of those massively formative albums for me – silly, weird, accordion-centric, and out of the mainstream. I bought it on a bike trip to New Hope just before I turned fifteen, and twenty years later They are still my favorite band. (And I still have a massive crush [...]
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