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Random Acts of Blogness

Posted in Chicagoland, blogging, cake and cupcakes, chef days, family, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, soups on Jan 22nd, 2010

Here’s what they don’t tell you about blogging: it’s random. Crazy random. Unless you have a mission – you wish to share model railroad layouts, or describe one cloud shape per day – blogging is ebb and flow. What to say, what to cook – and why? One answer came from What Would Katharine Hepburn [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: 1973

Posted in family, wordless wednesday on Jan 20th, 2010

Hard to say what’s best here: those groovy pants, or my sister’s ratty, drooled-on, one-eyed Big Bird?
Apologies for my absence. Simmering away and back soon, with more than a few words.
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Bavaria, On Tap

Posted in drinks, family, sketchbook, vacation, winter on Jan 9th, 2010

Home exactly one week, and with jet lag behind me (and snow shovel in hand) I can look back now and smile on a glorious time. Vienna was magic, Salzburg was alpine, and Munich – Munich was fascinating, with many faces: historic, kitschy, lively, stony, colorful, both wholly modern and mired in its past. We [...]

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Back Pages: French Onion Cider Soup, Take Care

Posted in Chicagoland, family, soups on Nov 6th, 2009

Why does this post merit repeat viewing? First, we’re now fully immersed in fall, and all the red and gold and chilly, early nights send me straight to the soup pot. Next, it’s almost a year since my dad passed away. When a blog-world acquaintance’s father recently died, the generously shared details of her loss [...]

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