being not doing

Today is international Buy Nothing Day. I encourage you to celebrate it this year in remembrance of Jimmy Damour, if for no other reason.
On a separate note, over the past few weeks I’ve fallen into a blogging black hole, for which I sincerely apologize to my loyal reader(s). No excuse, really, just a […]

Here’s the thing about Joe Lieberman that I keep coming back to. Well, there are a few things about Joe Lieberman, and I will do my best to say them, be done, and never mention them again.
Joe Lieberman did not ‘earn’ the committee chair position he currently holds, he bargained for it. Joe […]

I have this recipe that I found on the internet last year, for chicken with bok choy. I pull it out when I get bunches of pac choi from our farm share, which is a couple of times a season. It’s a tasty recipe, in a salty soy sauce kind of way, but […]

The lavender bush, blooming in autumn.
The lavender bush, newly planted in spring.
This weekend we engaged in a superhuman final push to get the yard cleaned up for the winter. ‘Cleaned up’ is, of course, a relative term. We did not, as I’d hoped, prepare any beds for the transfer of rose bushes in […]

After searching high and low, I was able to find orzo at Whole Foods. Good to know for the future. For folks like me for whom cream is just a big no-no, orzo is the gift that allows us to have something resembling risotto. Which is what the Butternut Sage Orzo dish […]

Yesterday was like electoral Christmas. Early in the day Indiana’s vote count was finalized, and a 22 point shift led to an Obama win in the state where I grew up! Every state I’ve ever lived in — Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, DC, and Maryland — went for […]

On Monday, Election Eve, I had unwittingly double-booked myself. In addition to committing to help get out the vote in Virginia, I was meant to be contributing a dessert to a lunchtime program with a Russian1 theme. My assigned baked good was Medivnyk, Ukrainian spiced honey cake, which I suspect — and the […]

8:05pm Holy god, they aren’t calling Mississippi and Alabama right away? I might yet get my BLOODBATH! In other news, of course Pennsylvania went to Obama, it was polling nearly the same as Michigan and Wisconsin. Thank you for acknowledging that, NBC.
8:13pm THANK YOU, KAY HAGAN! BOOYAH, LIDDY DOLE! BITE […]

Obviously the presidential race is the big ticket item, and a future senate majority is the icing on the cake. I’m sure each of you also has our own personal small hope and dream for tonight’s results, and I’m no different.
First, my hope is that Kay Hagan’s race to unseat Senator Liddy Dole in […]

7:30am First pot of coffee of the day brewed! We are checking out the morning TV news, for the first time in memory, to see how long the lines are in Virginia. Not too long, and we catch one really happy looking black guy about our age coming out of the polls […]