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I finally posted about freekah (the grain dish I served Kuv when she came to visit), on LAist. Take a look! I’m PMS’ing in a kinda unusual way. Well first of all, it’s odd that I’m PMSing at all, since that doesn’t happen usually; the acupunture seems to be working thank goodness. Last time, my [...]

After yesterday’s preachy/rambling/maybe naive post, I was feeling a little sheepish about posting today. But then I received a wonderful, cheery link in my email so I thought I would share it with y’all! I remember watching Paula Deen talk about how when she was struggling with agoraphobia, she always took refuge in her kitchen. [...]

I thought I had heard the worst humanity is capable of when I researched Darfur. Then I started reading about the Congo (the DRC). I confess that I was so immersed in reading everything I could about darfur, that I ignored the congo, except for a cnn piece about a small hospital where women, survivors, [...]

y’all, i have been very bad about not writing in the past few weeks. but i have a lot of great excuses. first we went to austin, for the austin city limits festival, a yearly tradition for the past four years. the festival always falls around our anniversary (in fact, the first year, it actually [...]

we’re in austin for the austin city limits festival, so i won’t be writing for a few days. but i’ll post more when we get back on monday. i’m sad that three of the acts that i wanted to see cancelled: the white stripes, amy winehouse and rodrigo y gabriella. but i’m sure it’ll be [...]

I am having a difficult morning. First, I am jolted from my freshly-snooz-button’d slumber by a rapping on the door at 8am, and it’s a guy, who has been sent over by the landlord, to fix the water damage in our bathroom. It’s nice (and of course, required) that she take care of it, but, [...]

There’s a website where you can find out what else the country should be celebrating on your birthday in addition to the anniversary of your leaving the womb. Here’s what I found out:Me: Potato DayBren: Rubber Eraser Day (WHAT?!) Who knew that the lowly potato and I were cosmically aligned? Next time someone calls me [...]

Thanks for the sweet emails and comments regarding Patte. As my mum said, “she is a tough cookie!” and I think she’s planning on going back to the clinic some time this week. Anyway, this weekend, Kuv and her boyfriend Rich came to visit. I haven’t seen Kuv since Thanksgiving last year, so it was [...]

Bren’s mum, Patte, is a gentle woman, with an incredible knack for telling stories, pulling the funniest faces that leave me in tears, and saying just the right thing when you need to know which way is up. She does not shy away from saying exactly what she thinks, and exactly what she thinks is [...]