apropos of anything

The cast of Pushing Daisies. Because of them, every Wednesday I want to make pie.
I missed a lot of TV last week — Bones, House, Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy. I didn’t think they would show new episodes on Thanksgiving day, and I had taping malfunctions for the other four.
(Yes, Alicia. I [...]

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The second time around, the tarts were much more manageable, and very yummy too.
Here’s hoping your Thanksgivings were awesome… any culinary triumphs (or disasters) to report on your end?

I think I got a little too big for my britches today.
I tentatively put the cranberry, caramel, and almond tarts from Smitten Kitchen on my Thanksgiving menu, but because I’ve never done anything like that before, I figured it might be a good idea to do a test run before I actually attempted them for [...]

“Thru” is not a word. It will not kill you to type the few extra letters to properly spell “through”. You won’t get carpal tunnel. I promise.
If you want to AIM it up with “thru”, that’s fine… but everywhere else, I’d really appreciate it if you could remember how to spell. Or at least remember [...]

Yesterday this story about our esteemed governor leading a prayer for rain on the capitol steps was making the rounds in national news, and I sent Dan a note asking whether I was a bad (un-rain-wanting, God-disavowing) person for snickering a little as I read the article. For one, it evoked images of rain [...]

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This past weekend I attended an event that had been billed as girls-only, so I took advantage of the opportunity to dress up a little and to actually do my hair.
(For those who don’t wear hijab — [...]

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Indeed, not answering questions because we’re afraid our answers just won’t be popular just won’t do it.

Apparently not only did I break the Featured post, I also broke the presentation in Firefox (but I swear it looked fine earlier in the evening), so I’m reverting back to the original Wordpress template until I can get things fixed….