Monthly Archives: December, 2008
Resolutions: 2009
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I haven’t always, but for the past few years, I’ve found it helpful to spend time taking stock. Last year I made two resolutions: eat healthier, and have more parties. Eating Healthier I have been working my way towards eating healthier ever since I was pregnant seven years ago. …
Julie and Julia (the book)
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously came out a few years ago, along with a lot of other blogs-to-books, and more than a few “spend a year doing XYZ” books. I chose it as one of my Christmas books this year, and am so glad I did– if you’re looking for a foul-mouthed …
Hello Again
I hope you all had lovely holidays. Every year, I say we have the best tree ever, and the best Christmas ever, but this year, we truly did have a pretty fantastic day. I definitely overplanned on the menu though– we never got to the waffles or the Brie! So I’m bringing the Brie to …
Christmas Menu
This will be my last post till after the holidays, so I thought I’d share my Christmas menu with you! This is the second year we’ve hosted a Christmas Day brunch for all our assorted relatives in the area. I like brunch because it’s easier to make for 15 or so people, and easier to …
What’s Cooking
In a conversation with a co-worker recently, I mentioned that I have recently been daydreaming about getting an attachment for pasta-making for my stand mixer– I have only made homemade pasta once before, at my aunt’s house in Alabama, but I remember it fondly and it seems like it might be a fun project on …
Radio: An Elegy
It occurred to me recently that I don’t listen to commercial radio much anymore or buy CDs that often (much less mp3 albums). I listen to our fantastic local college station in the car, and at home I have been listening to a few of the cable music channels that come with our fancy cable, …
Almost Like Eavesdropping
For two semesters in a row now, I’ve required my college students to keep ongoing blogs connected to the topics we cover over the course of a semester. I tinkered a lot with how/whether to assign topics, whether to host them on Blackboard or send them to outside sources, how to assess them and how/whether …
Milk (the movie)
Like many East Coast liberals, my husband and I recently went to see Milk, starring Sean Penn and depicting the life and times of Harvey Milk, the first gay elected official who was tragically assassinated early in his political career. Of course, it’s a very timely film these days in the aftermath of the Proposition …
Cards or Cookies?
When I was growing up, my stepmother and her three sisters had a big cookie swap every year, and one Sunday each winter was spent making dozens upon dozens of cookies. I remember those days so fondly, as I helped scoop the cookies off the sheets, sprinkled chocolate chips into the batter, and even got …
Blogrolling
Over the years I have been blogging, I have seen a lot of controversy over blogrolls. What is their purpose? How do they function in pushing some blogs to the top, while others never get discovered? Who is excluded, and how is power at work? Many blogs that I think of as “professional” do not …
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