This past weekend, the sky was perfect. The Duke basketball team is on a hot streak. Bars were full of drunk students and happy patrons cheering on their players. Luck of the Irish and Happy St. Patty’s Day mixing with sports glee. Went to a first seed swap which was delightful, if a little limited in heirloom selection so got to walk past tons of random laughter. Doesn’t nice weather bring out the best in people?
In a happy surprise, Food Lion has kiwi berries which is Southern chefs #1 fancy fruit for epic pastry desserts. Delicious. I’ve been sitting on this supernatural story as it doesn’t fit in a neat package, but let’s do something not, “Let’s start WW III in the Middle East.” Almost a decade ago, I was in a bad car wreck. The kind that leaves twenty plus broken bones, chronic pain, and since my ribs healed wrong, every breath for seven plus years felt like swallowing glass. You swallow that pain and learn to live with it. Two years ago, listening to a youtube scifi podcast by Rob Skiba and his guest Nathan Rynolds. Skiba was a well-known flat earther and...
Happy Purim! May you have a lovely day eating fun treats and exchanging gifts with the fellow women in your life. Checking out a new cute Netflix tv series, Nobody Wants This with Kristen Bell, which is getting good word-of-mouth reviews for a fun 90s style romance. Haven’t finished the series yet, so tentatively recommend, but Kristen Bell shines so far. The food is also good. Whole reason started watching the show. The last row for the spring beds goes in this week including the deep European beds beside the new walkways. One of the big lessons from the first year of gardening is a heavy hand with mulch and organic fertilizer makes the plants grow. We don’t need the...
We’re coming up on Purim March 2nd, the ancient festival celebrating Esther, one of the most famous women in history who saved the Jewish people from genocide through her courage. This kicks off the spring festival season which peaks around Passover/Easter weekend. Wuthering Heights may be a wash, but hanging out with female friends and exchanging sweet treats is a win. Maybe throw in a little embroidery sewing? Or a girls’ craft night sit-n-sip, the most popular fashion class request people make? It’s a nice break from fresh Italian garden walkways which was more complicated than they first sounded to install. Worth it. Esther is a rag-to-riches story and my top 5 favorite. It starts with our king with a...
Sometimes a movie is not what you were expecting. Heartbreakingly so. As someone who enjoyed British 90s period romance films like Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, thought Wuthering Heights was a love story tragedy like Romeo and Juliet. Given the release of the Epstein files, what we actually got looked more like a stop incest/pedophilia of drunk father’s sleeping with daughters that used to run on the tv at the same time in Latin American countries rewritten to make incest cool not nasty. Huge shock to everyone who came in costume in theater and was expecting a Valentine’s Day love story. For those of you who may have missed the spanish ads, a father living alone...
