I’m a piler. I like to pile things; it’s how I put things in order. Currently on my desk, I have: two piles of books, three piles of papers (separated based on topic), and a pile of yarn that I’m making something with. It’s not pretty to look at, but I do, in fact, know …
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slow down soup.
For someone who makes a living off of telling people to slow down and take their time, I feel like I have very little spare time. I am subject to the same pressures as anyone else – the pressure to perform, to hustle, to get this done, that done – you know the drill. Being …
a poultice of sorts.
When I was little, I was obsessed with the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, and the romanticized life of a settler: learning how to live off the land, to make do with what you had, and to be self-sufficient. It was a far cry from the concrete-laden cityscape that I traversed in my red-and-white Keds sneakers, …
Dinosaurs eat broccoli. Rawrm.
There was a scene in an animated movie about dinosaurs that I watched when I was a kid where some dinosaurs saw a tree in the distance that was full of leaves, and they thought, “Yay! Food!” because Earth was changing and there wasn’t enough food to eat, but then before they could get to …
Macamacaroni
I remember Sundays when I was growing up as being rather groggy and lethargic days. Finally the adrenaline of the week had run out, and the sharpness of mind rendered from low sleep and cramming for tests between field hockey practice had faded. After a week of churning out delicious dinners with the required starch-vegetable-protein …
I heart immersion blender
Immersion blender, you’re the best,The way you blend I can’t protest,Smoothies, soups, purees and more,Why did I not have one before? I loooove my new immersion blender. My big boxy blender broke a few weeks ago, and it was a blessing in disguise. $19.99+tax later, I have a delightful new immersion blender that puts my …