Happy Friday! One must imagine Simcha saying something poignant here, something amusing and a little bit weird, making a captivating opening for this week’s food post. Then she will say somet…

Hola, amigos. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya. (And now ends the part of this post where I find out how old you guys are.) Happy Friday! Coming up to five weeks post surgery, I am…

Happy Friday! Happy nopioid day to me! Warning: This post has some scar pics in it, plus a lot of complaining, so don’t read if it you hate that!  There have been some freaking UPS AND D…

Hello! Happy Friday! Happy DEFINITELY RECOVERING NOW day to me!  My brain tumor craniotomy was nine days ago, and it went very well. I’ll share some medical details next, for those who f…

One of the more pleasant accounts I follow on social media is by a “mudlark” — someone who scavenges for lost and discarded items in a riverbank, especially on the river Thames. I enjoy the t…

Hello, parents of adult children. How you doing? Things are so much easier now than when your kids were little, right?  Yeah, I know. Kind of yes, but also very much no. Things are e…

Happy Friday! Today’s post will be largely about the treehouse I’m building, but with a surprising amount of food. Well, I was surprised, anyway. Here’s what we had:  SATURDA…

My garden, if I may say so, is doing great this year. I added many native perennials to my flower beds, but my pride and joy is the food I am growing. My peaches, apples and grapes are bounteous, m…

Happy Friday! I just want to say thank you to so many people who were so kind and sympathetic about my dumb ocean scare the other week. It’s crazy that it’s something that it’s su…

Sorry for not getting this out on Friday! But I assure you, it is Monday. I can tell because I’m on my backup to the backup computer, and it took my all weekend to figure out how to persuade …

Remember the Shake Weight? Remember the Abdominizer? Remember the Ab Roller, ThighMaster, Bowflex Xtreme? Once we believed all we had to do was buy this stuff, set it up, and inevitably proceed to …

Happy Friday! This was not an illustrious week for us, food-wise, or really in any way, but at least it’s Friday.  FRIDAY Ice cream, then tuna noodle Friday we did go see the Bellows Fal…

We saw The Odyssey (2026) last night. I give Christopher Nolan credit for making a nearly three-hour film that moves briskly. It was entertaining throughout. It had a few good characters, and some …

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Happy Friday! Today I am working outside and feeling pretty lucky about it! But also pretty abashed that I haven’t gotten a food post done in A WHILE. I am sorry! We had our huge July 4th (we…

My friend R. was raped many years ago. It was not a story with any gray areas. She was walking home from work when a large man grabbed her, beat and choked her, tied her up with duct tape, locked h…

War? Schism? Genocide? Fraud, pestilence, global conspiracies? These are all child’s play. Back in my day, Catholics used to spend our days on the internet arguing about really important things, li…