Building on a Theme

Posted on 3 . 15 . 2011 by admin

I had to look for some very important documents today. The kind that should be in a very important place, but I didn’t realize how important they were or that they had anything to do with me until I couldn’t find them. In this search through old boxes I came across piles of letters to and from my dad from as far back as when he was 8 and writing HIS parents from summer camp up until I was living in San Francisco and writing him about this new guy I thought I might be into (hint: now husband). I … Continue reading →

Oh the Injustice

Posted on 3 . 3 . 2011 by admin

Sausage wafting from below Your aroma kills me so I try to think it as a treat This brief, yet potent, sniff of meat.

Why a meatless March?

Posted on 10 . 16 . 2008 by admin

Several weeks ago I decided to relinquish meat for a month. On the eve of said month, I’m finding my reasoning fuzzy and, having not laid out the grand plan as intended, wondering what we might end up eating tomorrow. I’m sure the gazillions of vegetarians in the world (only several thousand of whom will surely find and read this blog) are saying “Big Yank!” But being raised by, and marrying into, not only meat-loving families, but a meat-on-dry-ice-shipped-for-any-seemingly-good-occasion dad, some farm-owning-cow-raising-beef-selling step-in-laws and meat-processing-company in-laws, this is bound to be a challenge of sorts. (I see I have now … Continue reading →