This is the second time I’ve picked up this tome entitled Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson. I first heard of it on NPR years ago. I checked it out and skimmed some chapters before it was due again at the library. Ted is the one who reserved this […]
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Home Comforts: it’s where you belong
March 31st, 2004 · 2 Comments
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Still-Life Stew
March 27th, 2004 · Comments Off on Still-Life Stew
The other day the girls and I wandered into an art gallery on the island and we discovered the illustrations from Still-Life Stew on display. Colorful clay creations, pictures of a girl in her garden, growing vegetables, fruits, creating a stew in her kitchen, smelling garlic cloves. I’d seen the book at the library and […]
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Pastries
March 27th, 2004 · Comments Off on Pastries
There’s impulse buying and there’s impulse borrowing. At the library, I spied this novel by Bharti Kirchner on a shelf while I was walking to the check out so I grabbed it and took it home with the rest. I had read the Seattle Times review and knew she was a local author. I enjoy […]
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Fast Food Nation
March 27th, 2004 · 3 Comments
I’m probably one of the last people to read this book by Eric Schlosser, correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. Published in 2001, three years ago, Fast Food Nation (FFN) was a New York Times bestseller. Somehow I spied it in a bookstore window recently and then reserved it at the library. What follows below are […]
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Getting organized…
March 18th, 2004 · 1 Comment
David Allen now has a blog! Hurray! (So Ted’s ready to buy Scoble a beer)…I’ve written a few times how his book Getting Things Done has impacted my life and even our daughters. A theme this week: two blogging doctors urge patients to keep copies of medical records. Enoch: I think that patients need to […]
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