I’m about to be a party pooper. Why? How? Because in about 3 seconds, I’ll admit that I’m not that into Halloween. “WHAT?” You say, “BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE IT ALL???” The answer is that I’m a fraidy-cat. I don’t like being scared by the kids in the haunted maze. I’m not interested […]
Month: October 2016
Restaurant – Co Co. Sala
So I think I’ve established pretty well that the Boy and I are big fans of trying out new (and old) restaurants. And with our Shakespeare Theatre tickets, we have evenings where we are already in DC and have the opportunity to go out and enjoy ourselves. The evening we saw Romeo and Juliet we […]
Book – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao & Drown
I like to pretend that I know slightly more about the Dominican Republic than the average American. I visited for a week to do mission work (painting a school!) a few years ago. We did not spend any time lying on a beach, but we did eat a lot of rice and fried plantains and […]
Article – Living in a Data-Driven Society
I was not enamored of my current lineup of planned posts, so today I’m going off schedule and I found an article and a topic that interests me greatly. I don’t know if I ever mentioned it here, but I was a statistics major in college. In the process of taking my introductory statistics course, […]
Recipe – Pumpkin Goat Cheese & Kale Lasagna
My college friends and I had another potluck recently. Since it’s October, the theme was a very nebulous fall-pumpkin-harvest theme. Initially there were back and forth emails about “I love pumpkin!” “I hate pumpkin!” “I’m ok with pumpkin as a flavor, but am not really a fan of pumpkin pie”, “blasphemy!”, “well then, you eat the […]
Personal – Not the Mama
I am a nebulous creature without a name. I am an adult helping to care for children that I live with, that are a part of my life. Nobody is paying me to care for them, I do it out of love for their father and the fact that I care deeply for them […]
Articles – Lenny Letter
I am so tired. It’s only a partial lack of sleep, but a large portion is that there’s just so much going on, and it’s easy to get into a rut. And then you drive further into that rut and get stuck and die. Maybe not. I’m exaggerating. Perhaps it’s our election which feels like […]
Theater – Romeo and Juliet
It’s hard to be popular. Everyone knows all about you and is talking about you and has an opinion. And when it comes to Shakespeare, the most popular of the bunch is Romeo and Juliet. It’s easy to see why – if you’re a teenager, this is the play that has main characters that look […]
Book – After You
So, normally I’m not a huge fan of books with sequels. It’s the kind of thing that I feel like if a story is self-contained the way that so many good books are, there is no need for a sequel. Yes, you may wonder about what happens next, but that’s part of the joy of […]
Recipe – Basic Pasta Bake
There are the foods that we make when we’re feeling lazy, and for me that is undoubtedly pasta. I have a tendency to go with the most basic, and possibly the least good for me versions of pasta too that are essentially all butter and cheese. I have been known to eat the beigest of […]