Grapefruit finds its way into my basket when I’m at the market. I always have good intentions when I grab one or more of the pinkish-orange orbs of bracingly sweet tart fruit imagining that I’ll eat one a day. We all know that imaging something doesn’t quite make it happen, so once home, the grapefruit [...]
February 2011
Spending the better part of a week cleaning up after what my hosting company called a “compromise” in this site’s security, I’ve been less than thrilled about settling down to write. The “compromise” was a serious hacking of numerous files in Sass & Veracity, as well as a fledgling art portfolio site I gave my [...]
My husband rarely calls me by my given name — a boy’s name my mother decided upon after she heard a woman in a grocery store call her dog. A big dog. I’ve always thought it would be a great name for a dog since they’re more like people than animals anyway. It was going [...]
There are some flavor combinations I never tire of regardless of what time of the year it is. The classic flavors of basil and tomato with a sprinkle of minced red onion, squirt of lemon, and drizzle of fruity extra virgin olive oil will always entice me. Equally delicious are chopped fresh tomatos, green onions, [...]
There was a time when the idea of eating duck wasn’t something I was interested in. It’s not that I was avoiding it. To some extent, duck hadn’t been a part of my life, excluding the mallards allowed to quack freely around a neighbor’s yard when my boys were in diapers and obsessed with poking [...]
