Archive for May, 2009
Teeny Twitter Diet
Posted on 15. May, 2009 by Deb.
I love Twitter.
Twitter has kept me connected with old friends, helped me make new ones, kept me informed on the latest news, and allowed me to read the snarkiest thoughts of my children. It is a fabulous piece of technology and networking that allows me to instantly be aware of the world around me. [...]
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Black Hole
Posted on 13. May, 2009 by Deb.
“My room is a black hole. I never find half the stuff I bring.” So was the lament of my youngest child on Sunday night and Monday morning. Missing were a camera, IPod headphones, a white camisole, and a blue blouse. I managed to find most of her things before she left to go to [...]
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Less Moo
Posted on 11. May, 2009 by Deb.
For years, my parents filled the freezer by splitting a cow with my aunt and uncle. Yes, you read that right: half a side of beef. I’m Texan and beef was the staple of my childhood meals. As an adult responsible for cooking, I tended to mimic my upbringing, until recently when I began eating [...]
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Nothing
Posted on 10. May, 2009 by Deb.
Some of the best days are when you do nothing in particular, yet feel everything. And that was my more-than-wonderful, perfectly-perfect Saturday. I heard this song, just not this version, last night while watching a movie with my sweetie.
Hope you are having a lovely weekend!
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The Learning of a Heavenly Virtue
Posted on 08. May, 2009 by Deb.
Early Christian teachings focused on seven deadly, or cardinal, sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. In 410, Prudentius wrote of the battle between these sins and “heavenly virtues” in his epic Psychomachia. The Roman Catholic Church officially recognized the virtues in positive contrast to the sins. These virtues are: chastity, temperance, charity, [...]
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Help Others.
Posted on 08. May, 2009 by Deb.
It’s simple.
Leave non-perishables next to your mailbox tomorrow, Saturday, May 9th, and your mail carrier will pick it up – and take it to a local food bank.
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Menagerie
Posted on 07. May, 2009 by Deb.
I have a soft spot in my heart for creatures. For the last nine years, the primary focus of that love has been my Bouvier des Flanders, Greta. When I think back about my life, I recall only a one-month period of my life when I didn’t have a pet of some sort.
My folks were [...]
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Everything
Posted on 05. May, 2009 by Deb.
Some days, we have everything in our minds yet struggle to get the thoughts to flow from our minds onto the paper. It isn’t that it is a bad day, indeed it is often when I am clearest days I feel least able to write. Those who really know me, would say that it is [...]
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For the Love of the Cookbook
Posted on 03. May, 2009 by Deb.
I found it fascinating that, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal, there is a rise in the sale of cookbooks. By the numbers, books in the entertainment/cooking category is up by 4% (while adult nonfiction overall is down 9%). The author pointed out that people are cooking at home more as part [...]