every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in Lawrence, Let's Eat, Let's Get Away, Tweenager on Aug 12th, 2008
I am one lazy blogger today. Maybe Grace’s interview was so delightful (it was) I decided to leave it up, or maybe I’m in a fog because my daughter - who I swore just turned eight - heads off to junior high tomorrow. Most people remember at least one happy thing about school daze [...]
Posted in Let's Get Away on Aug 6th, 2008
Right now I’m up to my ears in duffels and magazines, charger cords and road snacks. We’re off to Chicagoland to visit my folks, so today, there is sadly no time to wax poetic about peaches or pie crusts or slices gone by.
This disturbs me. I was all set to share several tasty [...]
Posted in Let's Get Away, My So-Called Life, moving on Aug 5th, 2008
Two dear Lawrence friends recently moved to Philadelphia - which means I can now add Joel and Jocelyn to the mental loop of “Philly stuff” in my head. That particular slideshow includes the obvious - the Liberty Bell, cheese steaks, Rocky chasing a chicken - and more obscure bits, like how I first heard [...]
Posted in Lawrence, Let's Cook, Let's Get Away, Tweenager, recipes on Jul 31st, 2008
Are you, or any breathless young girl you know, familiar with the Twilight books?
My daughter is obsessed with Stephenie Meyer’s wildly successful teen - romance - vampire series, and I must be way off the buzz wagon, because until I smacked into a towering, goth-flavored display at Borders, I’d never even heard of them. But [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, Let's Eat, Let's Get Away on Jul 23rd, 2008
Every August, the heat here ceases to be punishing heat and becomes cruelly disciplined heat. That is our signal to escape - we flee Kansas by driving straight through an Iowa haze, further north by the hour, looking for a lake. When we finally stop in Duluth, Minnesota, we cross a bridge that [...]
