I’m writing at the end of a very nice evening with old and new friends. K. and Asa’s chum, T., come over every Monday for dinner while the Texas legislature is in session. We look forward to their company all week. Some Mondays the boys are buddies, and some Monday’s they’re decidedly not. Most Mondays…Read more
I don’t want anybody to have a heart attack (especially you Dad), but I actually managed to clean the house a bit today. Right, we’re not actually talking clean here. It’s more “not filthy” after four hours of scrubbing. But at 10:30 pm on a Sunday night, “not filthy” is fairly satisfying. I even planted…Read more
This is what we’ve been up to today. Lettuce, beans, carrots, melons, radishes, squash, tomatoes, swiss chard: All planted by my green-thumbed husband. (So by “we” I mean I was in the house napping while Eliot was working.) I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a black thumb. Before I gave up on houseplants,…Read more
I went to bed around 9 last night and woke up at 6:30, so apparently I’m still catching up on a bit of sleep. I read a book on sleep years ago (ah, the good old days when there was that kind of wild free time) by some important sleep study physician fellow that said…Read more
Mark Bittman has an opinion piece in the New York Times about McDonald’s oatmeal. It reveals what you might expect about the ingredients that are in McDonald’s oatmeal besides oats, but I thought this was particularly good: “Incredibly, the McDonald’s product contains more sugar than a Snickers bar and only 10 fewer calories than a…Read more
