Holiday Project Idea: Drop In & Decorate
Posted on November 3, 2009 - Filed Under Great Gifts, News Break, On the web, holiday, organization | 3 Comments
Sometimes, it feels like I blink and a whole month has spun by. That’s what October felt like. It was a whirlwind of trips to New Hampshire and the Cape, along with birthdays, work projects and Halloween. I fear that I might blink again soon and have November speed past me too.
Before it does though, [...]
Food Boundaries are a Crock
Posted on February 26, 2009 - Filed Under News Break | 4 Comments
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The other morning, my dear friend Angel directed me to a story on Yahoo! News about a town in Italy that is banning any foreign flavors from emerging in their walled Tuscan center. The new rule doesn’t impact the restaurants that are already there, but it prevents new, foreign restaurants from opening in [...]
Artistic License, Offensive Words and Risque Photos
Posted on February 22, 2008 - Filed Under New York, News Break, Not so much | 2 Comments
Well, if that title doesn’t say it all, I don’t know what does.
Let’s get something established off the bat: I consider myself a fairly liberal person – few things offend me. Few things make me blush. And I rarely see something and wonder how that ended up in a magazine or on television or wherever. [...]
Deja Vu? Potentially Tainted Spinach Recalled
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under News Break, rants | Leave a Comment
It’s hard to forget the tainted spinach ordeal of last year. Truth is, I have barely touched spinach since then. While I love a good baby spinach salad with strawberries, a bit of feta and a light vinaigrette, something in the back of my head has been apprehensive about eating spinach again. If I could [...]
Read More..>>McBamboozling?
Posted on June 14, 2007 - Filed Under News Break, rants | 1 Comment
McDonald’s Corp. is taking a new tactic to try and make people feel okay about eating their food and feeding it to their children. They are letting six women — all mothers — visit restaurants, processing plants, test kitchens and orchards. Then the women are going to journal, not blog because there will be no [...]
Read More..>>5 Years: The World Stood Still
Posted on September 12, 2006 - Filed Under News Break | 3 Comments
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 can’t [...]
Read More..>>Hip to be square
Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under News Break, On the web | 1 Comment
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?!?
I caught onto this one from reading the Sunday News at Growers & [...]
A note on the bizarre
Posted on July 8, 2006 - Filed Under News Break, On the web | Leave a Comment
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 going [...]
QOTW: First job/first knowledge
Posted on June 16, 2006 - Filed Under News Break | 3 Comments
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 was [...]
