Rowena’s Surgery Fundraiser

Our darling Rowena, rescued from the mean streets of Houston in 2019, needs emergency surgery. It's going to cost about 10k, which we don't have. Covid-19 has done damage to our financial situation. Can you help? If everyone on my Facebook friend list can donate$25.00, that will cover the surgery. Please help! I hate asking, …

We Will Always Have Earthsea

Ursula LeGuin is dead. Ursula LeGuin will never die, so long as her work is known, read, and remembered. That’s what I hope and believe, but it still hurts. The last book review I wrote on this blog was for a book of her essays. Last week, a friend and I went walking in the …

Unsolicited Product Review

Rubbermaid Lunch Blox Container Salad Kit I love this thing. I picked it up at a local grocery on the clearance table, because I’m always trying to find meal-sized containers for work, and this one came with a cooling piece (the blue-ice thingy.) I no longer put my lunches in the break-room fridge, because they …

Soul Food

“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.” ~Shakespeare, Twelfth Night: Act 1, Scene 3 I spend a lot of my time thinking about food. I don’t believe this is unhealthy. Much of my work has to do with food, and one must eat to live, so it seems reasonable to me to …

I’m Taking Sexy Back

Oh, Justin. JT, Mr Timberlake, Trousersnake. What have you done? What is this thing you call “Filthy?” Have you been playing JC Chasez’s Schizophrenic on continuous repeat since 2004? Do you miss your Boo? I understand, truly I do. He had the best hair in the band. We all miss the hair.   However, and …

Net Shaming

Have you seen those memes where people pose their pets with signs spelling out exactly how the pictured pet has caused pain and suffering to their person(s)? Like so: I propose expanding the meme to include the whole internet. I’m not sure how to make that work, as the internet in its entirety is as …

Superfoods

TLDR: Get off my lawn! When did the term “superfood” enter the lexicon? Can we dial back the time machine, please? I have read or referenced hundreds, probably thousands, of cookbooks and books about food in my lifetime, and the term “superfood” appears in none of them. I may be wrong, but I’m certain. Conversely, …

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I just spent half an hour struggling over two paragraphs about trees, then thought, “Fuck it,” and gave up. Sometimes, thoughts cannot be shared. Or, rather, should not be shared. My deleted thoughts survive in my head, where they belong, to be cherished and examined and enjoyed. Often, I write to understand what I think. …

Raw

Recently, I’ve been craving raw foods. Not hamburger or liver, or anything like that. Vegetables. Lunch has been cauliflower, celery, radishes, asparagus, carrots. Foods with crunch, that pop and sparkle in my mouth. This is, no doubt, a reaction to the sticky, sweet, gummy foods all around me. The office is filled with candy and …

Counting Flowers on the Wall

It’s that time of year, again. Not winter or the holidays. I’m not talking about dates on the calendar or weather events. I’m talking about seed and plant catalogs. Yes, that time of year. Plantsmen know their customer base. It’s zero degrees outside, snow on the ground, freezing wind, and the sun is out maybe …