Blogs mostly about my life
2008 has been a year of re-emergence. After a few years of enduring my father’s decline with an undignifying illness, my immediate family and I have had a year to discover what the world is like when it is what we make of it. So, my first serving of thanks goes to
Read more...People wonder what to make vegetarians. Too often it’s a side-dish of veggies or something gotten from the frozen food section. There’s no reason why you can’t make a tasty thick stew that even the carnivores will be happy to be served.
Read more...Today I re-donned my photographer’s cap. Last week, Tess* asked if I’d take some headshots of her for various purposes. I, being a push-over whenever a DLT asks me for just about anything, of course said, “Sure.” After all, I’d done a bit of actor/model promo photography back in the day.
Read more...Well, it’s been a year since my dad died. It almost goes without saying that the events from that time have been going through the minds of me, my mom, and my brother in recent days. It’s been amazing how different it’s been in this past year.
Read more...When I was unable to find a cheese bread recipe that satisfied me, I decided to make my own. It was scarfed down by party goers rather quickly.
Read more...Just received my order for the year’s business cards for CJ’s Creative Studio: The color on the image is a bit red, …
Read more...One of my younger cousins, Tera*, combined a lot of celebrations into one event. On October 31, she got remarried, and then …
Read more...This summer I had a taste of my first A&W Root Beer Float since I was a kid. It tasted good, but somehow it wasn’t quite what I remembered. Something was wrong.
A couple of days ago on the Food Network series Unwrapped, I saw the difference: the mug is filled with root beer and then soft-serve is shot in. Soft serve? Noooo!!!! Say it ain’t so.
Read more...It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I’m a bit of a fatalist. Since I was a child, I knew …
Read more...I live right next to a high school. Almost every morning, at 6:30am, the marching band practices. Well, I assume it’s probably the whole band as all I can hear are the drums. The constant…incessant…non-predictable beating of those drums for an hour. And then, once school is over and the
Read more...My brother alerted me to the fact that the greenery growing on the walls lining the property of our neighbor across the street was all a flutter with butterflies and bees. He was right. A sizable number of both Painted Lady (or Cosmopolitan) Butterflies, along with
Read more...Some people spend hours each day on the telephone, chating and bonding and doing all those other things that modern people do with that technology. For some reason, I don’t seem to be one of those people. (more…)
Read more...I got to spend many enjoyable hours on Friday visiting with Jamie*. Actually, it as a little bit of a working visit …
Read more...It’s funny how much of life swings between trickles and floods. I speak, of course, of the girls. For a variety of …
Read more...I’ve been asked, me being a native New Mexican and all, if I have any good chile recipes. Of course I do. …
Read more...As I mentioned before, I’ve been having a major issue with my knee as of late. It’s been very difficult to sleep, …
Read more...I tweaked my left knee about four weeks ago. I don’t know how. All I know is that since then it’s been …
Read more...Well, it appears that my secondary computer’s boot drive decided that it didn’t like accessing its directory…effectively making that computer comatose. I’m …
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