I took the last week off cooking, and since I’m heading to New York this week (more on that tomorrow), I don’t see a lot of cooking happening in the days ahead. Bren and I have been living a bit high on the hog, eating out most nights. In fact, the only cooking I’ve done [...]
This was a story recorded by StoryCorps, one of my favourite things on earth. I love hearing other people’s stories — you realise that true life is sometimes more touching than anything I could make up! Here’s a story that was animated by the Rauch Bros. I defy you not to tear up by the [...]
No doubt, either you or your friends have fallen victim to email hacking. I have gotten so many emails from my friends’ actual email addresses, each of them talking up cheap Viagra or other pills. Then comes the inevitable follow-up from said friend, apologising for having been hacked. When that happened to one my friends [...]
Funny exchange just happened so I had to share it. I received a really wonderful email from a viewer, so I quickly bugged Bren to stop whatever he was doing and read it. “Read it! Read it! Read it!” I quipped. “OK!” he said, putting down his pen and shifting his weight over so he [...]
I’m listening to The Story on public radio right now. And I’m touched deeply by what I’m hearing. The show is checking in on a boy, Terrance, who at the age of 11 was being bullied at school. A slight boy, only about 4′ tall, he was the object of a lot of ridicule at [...]
Whilst shooting season 2 last week, we would often lunch from the myriad food trucks here in LA. I doubt there’s any other town in the country with as wide a proliferation of the mobile food phenomenon as LA. I mean, just yesterday, we were driving down the freeway and we saw two food trucks [...]
Every night, before I fall asleep, I think, “ugh! I didn’t blog again!”. I’ve tried to figure out how to do it from my phone but I can’t seem to make it work. I miss blogging so much. I feel like I’m letting you guys down by not blogging every day; your comments mean so [...]