Ellie comes around the corner of the kitchen, her blue eyes wide, coffee cup in her hand, pajamas still covering her body. My eyes make a trail from her head to the tips of her slipper covered bare feet. She has on a long tan sweater but the tank top and shorts underneath leave not...
Now, I know this way of living isn’t for everyone,and that’s alright. But for us, it’s been our life for as long as I can remember. At this stage, I don’t see us changing, and I don’t reckon we’d want to. There’s nothing quite like starting the day with nature righ...
Now we move to the buildings, which provide some much-needed shade and a change-up to the scenery at The Big E. The Young Building (sometimes called the International Building) has a lot of commercial vendors and a lot of “As Seen on TV” goods. But it’s also...
Now, I know this way of living isn’t for everyone,and that’s alright. But for us, it’s been our life for as long as I can remember. At this stage, I don’t see us changing, and I don’t reckon we’d want to. There’s nothing quite like starting the day with nature righ...
Instead of reading a steak as Helen Keller would read Annie Sullivan’s face, I am a fan of using a proper thermometer. At first, I used a round dial thermometer. It was simple to use but it took a long time to register a temperature and its small face difficult for me to read. ...
We also ordered boa buns with chicken Katsu and coleslaw and spicy morillo mayo – a sort of global recipe not usually in Japanese restaurants but we were enthusiastic. You can pick it up and as long as you can keep the sauce inside you only need to lick your fingers. Finally we chose...
Do you need both peanuts and popcorn? Can you make do with a regular hot dog instead of a foot-long? Can you keep it to one or two beers instead of three? Can you choose the small popcorn instead of the jumbo tub? Make Your Best Choice ...
about a long-lost African-American dance in Dahomey. On the food front, we curried in Ceylon, baked Queen Mother’s Cake in Australia, made homemade mustard in Denmark, learned that not all fondue comes in a hot pot in Belgium, and took a much-needed virtual vacation to Corfu via ...
. Our waitress was actually from Wisconsin but it sounded like she'd been in France for a long time since she was apologizing for not remembering some English words, haha. Once we finished that up we did some more aimless walking around and got some ice cream before heading back to the ...
Aside from making my kids cringe while dancing to Madonna in the kitchen? Being myself. When you turn 40, 41, Lordy help me I’m 45. I don’t want to be filling this post with long division before I get to my point here. I have found that at 45, it’s so nice to just be ...