I’m procrastinating. Or, if you look at it another way, limbering up; stretching; flexing the word muscles; basically trying to put a coherent thought together and not rely on fragmented sentences or non sequiturs (amazing how many blog posts are full of them, if you look). Blah. Let’s start again, okay? * For years I…
Although I’m still feeling horribly sore, further discussions of ‘MY HEAD – IT HURTS’ have been postponed for a little while because I have more exciting news to talk about today. Many of you have been asking about the new book, and it would be remiss of me not to assist your inquiries. Crying in…
These things I ponder, lying in bed watching the brash transition of spring as it passes across the sky, wind-lashing trees: I am sore and raw. The left side of my face has dropped (as I was warned but, like a vain princess in a fairy tale, conveniently forgot) a fold of skin rests above…
From here… Groggy View outside Room Inside Room Bed To here: Bed I felt pretty good yesterday on discharge from the hospital; however it’s all caught up with me today. I’m sore and feeling pretty ordinary. Apparently the surgery went well, although I can’t really testify to that at the moment as the swelling prevents…
Tomorrow is D-Day. Or S-Day. Surgery Day. In order to get my mind off such things as Super Bugs, wondering if I’ll be sharing a room with a chronically flatulent patient, debating if it’s worth taking in books to read and – most of all – trying not to have that thought ‘What happens if…’ You see,…
Having a vegetarian girlfriend over for dinner recently provided the perfect opportunity to flick through some recipe books to see what we could make for her. Adam found this one and declared it to be the winner. And indeed it was. Yes, it took quite a bit of preparation, but it was enormous and kept…
This post is almost a Part Two of a discussion/reflection I began the other day over at the Emerging Writers’ Festival blog, subtitled ‘The Books That Moved Us and Changed Us’. As I was writing it, I remembered that over a month ago I took a photo of a couple of purchases I’d made in…
Alternate title: What I’m Reading August 2012 – the New York version How much reading did I get done on the plane after all the preparation I went through before leaving? Zero. Nothing. Not unless you could the countless scrolling through the entertainment channels at one’s disposal, reading what movies and television shows were on offer….
I first saw this recipe in The Essential New York Times Cookbook months and months ago and I was intrigued on several counts. First, because it combines two of my favourite things – cheese and olives – in a way I hadn’t heard of before. Second, and I don’t know why, but it conjured…
