randomness and awards.

Recently, I have been honored to be tagged for a few “blogging awards” by some other bloggers I greatly respect.  I don’t normally indulge this amount of “me-talk,” mostly out of fear of boring my dear readers.  But, this time I decided, why not?  If you feel inspired to procrastinate, read on.

Resulting in quite possibly [...]

carroty cake.

I can clearly remember the first occasion on which I was introduced to carrot cake.

It was a family gathering in our old, ranch style home.  I was six years old, wearing my favorite dress: a black, pink, and teal number with voluminously ruffled short sleeves and a full skirt, ideal for twirling.  I sat next [...]