Top (Model) Chef: Love, Loss and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
Top (Model) Chef: Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi You may know Padma as that willowy model from the runway, or from her marriage to Salman Rushdie, or from her high-profile show, Top Chef. Whatever the way you know her, Lakshmi’s memoir Love, Loss and What We Ate details her lifelong love…
Singing this Saturday
Confession: I’m pretty stuck in my music choices. I don’t listen to a lot of new music much, unless it’s on the limited time I have during my daily commute–which doesn’t always happen. So I signed up for a music service (this is not an ad for them, so I am not saying anything as…
Essential Lessons from Cats
Essential Lessons from Cats Those tall people are here for your amusement. It’s okay when you might fall, if you recover quickly, no one saw it. ANYWHERE is comfortable. If someone tells you not to sit there, please see #3. You’re the important one, always remember that.
November NaNoWriMo 2016 update
November NaNoWriMo 2016 update I finished. This was my second year using Scrivener and I was able to compile my daily tracking sheet (thank you Nano template) and hit just over 50,000 words (50,376 officially, but who is counting?). This software program has been amazing and totally part of my success. It makes me…
Dysentery, Or How I learned to love the Oregon Trail Card Game
Dysentery, Or How I learned to love the Oregon Trail Card Game Growing up, our computers were representative of the time (read: mid 80s to early 90s). Our computer games were also representative of that time. We had lemonade stand and we had Oregon Trail. Lemonade Stand was a math game where you sold lemonade. Oregon…
Winning the Holiday Potluck with the Pioneer Woman
Winning the Holiday Potluck with the Pioneer Woman It’s the time of the year when you can be sure of one thing–working in a corporate environment means potluck meals! Since I’m a huge fan of something easy, I sometimes look to my favorite chefs and cookbooks to assist in this trying time–I was able to…