Ever push a random button on your laptop keyboard and become very, very confused by what happens? Ever bake something and wonder why it doesn’t look like the picture in the cookbook? And take sixteen whole minutes to remember that you aren’t Nigella Lawson and you substituted baking powder for baking soda (because how different [...]
I love having people over for dinner. Love it. In fact, I wish you all lived within geographical spitting distance so I could invite you over for latkes and pork sausage – which, incidentally, is what I served Kristin and Scott when they were here on Tuesday night. They were very gracious about how long [...]
When you’re in the midst of great change – after a breakup, new baby, new job, no job – your moods and the situation can feel precarious. (Dear god, I sound like a self-help book. JARGON CEASING. POINT IMMINENT.) You feel amazing at 11:37 but by 11:39, the whole world has crumbled around you like [...]
We knew Julia was planning a bouquet of vegetables for the wedding, we just didn’t know which vegetables she had in mind. Thrilled though I was when the legislation came through in time to turn the ceremony into a legally binding type arrangement, the real excitement was the farmer’s market bouquet. Speculation was rampant for [...]
If you tell me something, I will believe you. I think it’s good to take folks at their word, it breeds a general faith in humanity - and helps you avoid turning into a bitter, withered crone who glowers at toddlers and hits puppies with her cane. But maybe I should stop assuming someone else is right at the expense of [...]
(Part 1 is here.) I make Rice-a-roni at 2 a.m. on a freezing February night. Our dorm’s poor ventilation becomes clogged with smoke that may or may not have poured from my pan. The fire alarm goes off and everyone troops out into the cold, grumbling. The firemen come. I grumble along with everyone else and hope [...]
Know what happens when you chop up a red chili pepper and scratch your face? You race to the refrigerator, grab a container of yogurt, wrench it open, and stick your nose in it. Because of the BURNING. OH, THE BURNING. But only after you’ve stuck your nose in 1) a glass of milk, 2) [...]
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to remember how the door knob works. As in, leave the house once in awhile. When you combine vague narcolepsy (I have fallen asleep in bars and standing up at concerts) with a compass that always points toward L (for lost), you get a girl who likes to [...]
PMS this month seems to include a keen desire to have people dote on me and bring me warm chocolate chip cookies. Naturally, the one day you want people to wax philosophical about your brilliant talent and your charming demeanor – you might be feeling a little needy, after all – is the day you [...]
I am bedecked in festive holiday burns, courtesy of hours of cookie baking yesterday. Due to the state of my bank account, I’m not indulging in my normal frantic consumerism for Christmas this year. Everyone gets cookies, a state of affairs I may have belabored by announcing, whenever someone mentions Christmas, gifts, or the amount [...]
