A kid-pleaser: pasta with sausage and kale
This excellent, simple recipe from Mark Bittman was a huge success at dinner time tonight: Pasta with White Sausage Sauce. I got Bittman’s excellent How To Cook Everything app for free (!!!) a few years ago and have really enjoyed it — I would buy it all over again if I had to, as it’sContinue reading “A kid-pleaser: pasta with sausage and kale”
On Being: Mirabai Bush and Contemplation
I’m really enjoying this On Being podcast episode called Mirabai Bush — Search Inside Yourself: Contemplatuon in Life and Work. I cherish Krista Tippet’s excellent podcast On Being whenever I make enough time to listen; it so often feeds my soul. Here’s a description of this episode: She works at an emerging 21st century intersectionContinue reading “On Being: Mirabai Bush and Contemplation”
Blog recommendation: kingofstates.com
If you like funny feminists or New Jersey — or both — then run, don’t walk over to subscribe to my friend and co-worker Michelle Weber’s stupendous blog http://kingofstates.com/ She’s just so goddamned funny. I mean, really — how does someone learn to be so funny and write so, so well? And how did sheContinue reading “Blog recommendation: kingofstates.com”
Goat cheese marionberry habanero
Blog recommendation: elizabeth.place
If you’re interested in poetry, feminism, rabbits, and reading, you should subscribe to my friend and co-worker Elizabeth Urello’s blog: http://elizabeth.place/ Elizabeth lives in Albuquerque, reads voraciously, writes brilliantly, loves to travel, and makes me laugh frequently — to be clear, I’m laughing at her jokes, not at her. 😉 She’s got a pet rabbitContinue reading “Blog recommendation: elizabeth.place”
Things my son says
“I had so many hands because I had so many toys.” Me: “Maybe Amelia can help you find the scissors.” Baxter: “Yes, because she’s my helper-master.” “Mommy, why are you using that pretty voice? I want you to use your real voice.”
How can that possibly be comfortable?
Blog recommendation: chris.ink
If you like reading/talking about philosophy, liberal politics, equality, and tech, then you should subscribe to my friend and co-worker Chris Rudzki’s blog: http://chris.ink/ His wit is very dry and wonderfully enjoyable, he worked on the Nader campaign in 2008, and he lives in Pittsburgh. He also used to work in a neuroscience lab. ToContinue reading “Blog recommendation: chris.ink”
Every Monday needs a baby elephant playing with a ribbon
This is pretty much exactly what happens when Baxter gets his paws on anything ribbony or rope or rope-like. 🙂
Midsummer blooms
A story in 7 words
“Mama, come downstairs please!” Crash. “Uh-oh.”