As noted here, I have a thing for butter and sadly, we’re not talking toast. I tell you, sometimes I pop butter directly with brown sugar and my mouth thinks why bother baking? It’s all here. Back in bakery years, working all day near 64-pound butter blocks was torture, a special brand of wafting, yellow, [...]
Posted in birthdays on Nov 2nd, 2009
I had a lot of Halloween weekend parties in our wood-paneled basement. Here I am on November 2, 1975, thinking I did a swell job looking like Minnie Mouse. When did Minnie ever wear a green turtleneck? Also, I’m not trying to hang myself with that necklace. As I recall it’s a Mickey Mouse necklace, [...]
Simmer Till Done turned two. Now dear and loyal readers, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, what kind of parent is she, abandoning her blog when it’s birthday week? Where has she been while lonely Simmer was forced to sob and light its own candle? Poolside with cabana boys? Oh, no. If I was [...]
We’ve been totally focused on Bat Mitzvah weekend, hurtling toward next Saturday like a glittery, homemade asteroid. But Josie, in general, has been more interested in this Sunday – today, her 13th birthday, the day I “officially” become the mother of a teenager. Her auspicious response: “You have to remove the tweenager category on the [...]
Posted in birthdays, crafty, Holiday, Josie, Lawrence on Nov 3rd, 2008
I share a birthday with Marie Antoinette – November 2 – and in my younger years I took this to mean I was destined for cake and royalty, only to eventually learn that it just might mean the chopping block. Early November always puts my birthday somewhere between Halloween and Election Day, and never more [...]
