just testing this out for Kate.

MIKE!!!!!

I fly out first thing in the morning! woo-hoo!

I was just thinking…(clearest warning of bad idea, second only to "Well, I was drinking…") ….do you remember when some types of sugar packets were printed with little educational ditties? From when I was a little girl having dinner with the family at the Captain's Steak Joint, I remember a series of packets with illustrations…

I made this the other night, I was so proud I nearly took a picture, I'm telling you: it was gorgeous. And it tasted pretty good too! Dead-Easy Raspberry Tart Place a pre-made tart (or pie) dough in an ungreased 9" round pan. Pierce the bottom all over with a fork, trim the edges. Blend…

I soaked up Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss in one happy sitting yesterday. I want to re-write everything I've ever written; to embrace the poor unappreciated semi-colon, replace double-hyphens (lazy keyboard technique to blame) with proper dashes and perhaps delete a few dozen of my extraneous ellipses…

I love rhubarb. It grew wild alongside the garage of my childhood home; so it seemed to us at the time. More likely, it had been planted by some previous inhabitant and just continued to pop up every spring, ready for pie. Or jam, or tart, or this: Glazed Lamb with Rhubarb Salsa. Note: I…

rose is a very, very bad thing. see, it even prevents me from finding the accent key on this english keyboard. oh, right..there isn't one. back to bed.

oooh, was i spoiled today. spent the Fourth of July in Cote d'Azur style at a villa on Cap d'Antibes…Miss Liz had me up to the villa she works at (owners are away, help will play!) on the pretense of sketching/taking photos of her cat Jessica..she wants a series of pen and ink portraits…well, poor…

no matter where you go…across town, across the country, across an ocean…sorry to say it, bu† its all the same…single folks under 40 getting drunk hoping to meet someone whose presence will bring them out of the depths of the complete and total boredom that is binge drinking. and for the 40+ set, No, those…