I am in the midst of quite the week. Let’s see: a hefty workload and two back-to-back major evening work events, followed by evening social outings, a pre-work doctor’s visit, the final days of my Bikram pass. A sane person might have prepared for such a marathon week by taking a relaxing Sunday, but no, [...]
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If anyone ever wonders if I can be flexibly-less-than-perfectly-healthy, my dinner last night – at about midnight – consisted of pickings from a table of wine, chocolate covered strawberries, wine, chocolate macarons, wine, dinner rolls, and um, wine. It was the biggest event of my workplace’s year, and when we finally kicked up our heels [...] Warmer weather always gets my mind going. Perhaps in winter I’m too busy nearly sprinting from place to place, wrapping myself in as many layers as is practical, and cursing the air temperatures to think much about anything else. But in the spring and summer, I find my mind continuously racing through the present, past, [...] I was catching up via phone with an old friend last night when the topic of bread arose. We ladies spent the next five minutes listing all the reasons bread is one of the top five inventions of mankind. The smell. The texture. The crunch of a dark, seedy loaf. The practice of tearing off [...] I seem to have rekindled my love affair with my food processor. We go through phases: sometimes, I find myself pulling it off the shelf twice in one day, with ideas for puréed goodness simply screaming to be made. Other times, the thought of cleaning it, or even pulling it down from the top shelf where [...] |
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