Category: News Break
5 Years: The World Stood Still
This is a food blog. But every so often there is something so important it finds it way into these pages. This is one of those things. It was 5 years ago today, and it still seems like just yesterday. It was everywhere on television, radio, newspapers and internet that day, and again today. You [...]
Hip to be square
Do you see that? I mean can you really see that? It’s a watermelon – a square watermelon – decorated with ribbons. Square watermelons?!? It won’t roll around the fridge, it has a square rind that is easy to cut off….hmm, but a square watermelon?!?
A note on the bizarre
There are bizarre things all around us these days. Taxes levied on the illegal, and it’s illegal not to pay them. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Connecticut lawmakers are proud of their taxes that are levied on illegal substances like marijuana, heroin and cocaine. I am failing to comprehend their logic here. What drug dealer is [...]
QOTW: First Job/First Knowledge
The women over at Work At Home Mom Bloggers are talking about first jobs this week and I decided to join in and share my first experience with a paying job. So what was my first job? Well, promise not to laugh too hard, but from when I was 15 until I turned 18, I [...]
