Iced tea has always my summer drink of choice. And since I’ve been on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, plain, brewed iced tea sans sugar is the order of the season. And it gets a little…well, old after awhile. You can mix it up with plain, brewed peppermint tea (the other allowable tea on SCD), but [...]
Cheering the Hell Up™
Spend ten years writing ads and another ten acting in them and you get very, very good at marketing… Not! Proof? When I started my little sideline graphic design business, I had the genius idea to name it “BeanEyes Communications”, impossible for people to fathom, vaguely embarrassing when they did. That’s only the most obviously [...]
Home-grown tomato(es) Home-grown tomato(es) Where would life be without (a) home-grown tomato(es) Only two things that money can’t buy And that’s true love And (a) home-grown tomato(es) xxx c (Sign up here and listen to Guy Clark’s ‘Home Grown Tomatoes’ for FREE up to 25x in a row!)
Sometimes you eat the bear; sometimes you meet him at Starbucks and you both get to eat (or at least have a beverage). Yes, the communicatrix finally met internet giant Citizen of the Month, the one, the only Neilochka! For me, it harkened back ye old days of online dating, only we are both involved [...]
I have a series of frames in my bathroom. One holds a picture of a glass half-full, a cover from the New Yorker on my mother’s birthday the year after she died. Most of the rest of the frames are empty, or hold the “For Display Only” shots of nameless brides and sunlit couples and [...]
Some people like brunch of a Sunday. Some people like trips to the park or the beach or someone else’s backyard, for a barbeque. For me, Sunday is best started with tea, followed by a leisurely perusal of a fatty paper, some breakfast à deux, and maybe a bit of a project. Today’s project is [...]
When I bought this rug a couple of years ago it was barely off-white and stepping onto it was like warming your feet in the soft, soft wool of sleepy baby sheep. When I washed it for the first time the colors from the old kitchen rugs I washed it with seeped into it, dyeing [...]
