Archive for November, 2008
Home Sweet Chicken
While it was indeed a lovely drive up the Clearwater river yesterday on the way home from Seattle, it made for a very long day in the car — I didn’t get back until nearly ten and I was all road buzzy when I got here. But today was lovely — walked the dog, did […]
Posted: November 30th, 2008 under other, food, dogs, domestic life.
Comments: 1
Eating from the Pantry
So, these past few weeks have been killer at work — we’re moving to some new tools, which is exciting and frustrating and involves a lot of training, and of course, everyone is a little nervous in the current economic climate — so it’s been long days at the computer after which I reel out […]
Posted: November 19th, 2008 under other, food, domestic life.
Comments: 3
Blogging Post-Election
I’ve been in something of a blogging slump. I mean, it seems weird to be blogging about say, my newfound love of salted butter, in a world in which the financial markets are all collapsing and we have a president-elect who astonishes one every day with his deliberation and well, leadership. I don’t know that […]
Posted: November 18th, 2008 under other.
Comments: 6
Winter Salad
I have a confession to make. I don’t really like salads much, particularly not in winter. Salad just seems so cold somehow. However, I am a big fan of what I like to call “winter salad” — a sort of cole slaw. Cabbage, red onion, carrot all shredded up and dressed with lime juice, salt, […]
Posted: November 11th, 2008 under food.
Comments: 5
“Family” Dinner
A few weeks ago my girlfriend Deb called me on a Sunday evening. Sunday evenings can be bleak when you’re single and don’t have kids — it’s the time of the week when one can feel most adrift. And winter is upon us — it’s dark by five these days and we’re all living with […]
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under small town life.
Comments: 3
Bending the arc of history …
“The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King
“We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
“It’s the answer that led those who’ve been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve […]
Posted: November 6th, 2008 under politics.
Comments: 2
Walt Whitman on Election Day
ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884
If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,’Twould not be you, Niagara - nor you, ye limitless prairies - nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
Nor you, Yosemite - nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
Nor […]
Posted: November 4th, 2008 under other.
Comments: none
Day of the Dead
Last week at work was just insane — hence the dearth of blogging — and I spent most of the weekend in recovery-mode. I was so knackered that I totally bailed on Halloween — went to bed at 8:30 that night.
But I did manage to pull together a Day of the Dead altar this […]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under dead people, politics.
Comments: 2
