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Out the back of our parking lot is an abandoned Smokey Bones restaurant. We cross this parking lot often on our way to other places at lunchtime. Today, on my way out, I saw a minivan. Doing donuts* in the snow. I went to… Continue Reading “What I Saw Today”
My friend, utter_scoundrel, is a great nerd and got into the spirit of the season by watching all of the Friday the 13th films. (I just had to pause and ask myself if the word “film” is the appropriate word to describe them.) Personally,… Continue Reading “The Spirit of the Season”
I couldn’t stand Seinfeld, but it had one good bit: I loved the Soup Nazi*. For those not in the loop, Soup Nazi had a lunch counter in Manhattan with the best soup all the land. The line for his soup wrapped around the… Continue Reading “Soup Nazi”
51 degrees. When I switch from nylon stockings to tights, take out the little gloves and consider the real coat. When I defy the Green Gods of Energy and drive with the windows down and the heater on. Because I like it. This morning… Continue Reading “It Is That Time of Year Again”
I don’t normally go for these pictures, but I really hate Crocs. My mother (who wears them – in black, navy and aquamarine) sent me this. I should put them on her dog.
I went to pick up the roast for Sunday Dinner. I am walking down the back aisle and in a refridgerated case, I see this a bunch of oversized cans of whipped cream. Except they aren’t whipped cream. They are pancake batter. Batter Blaster,… Continue Reading “Now I Have Seen Everything”
Trip to the allergist. Getting my weekly shot today means I can avoid the children tomorrow.Went to the grand opening of the new Half Price Books in Highland Park. Apparently they were giving away free gift cards to the first 100 customers. I arrived… Continue Reading “What I Did on My Last Summer Day Off”
I have been with my doctor since high school. He and a partner started a practice a few doors down from my parents’ store when I was 16. A few years later, they built their own space further down the street and grew to… Continue Reading “A Whole New World”
I don’t know if you all have hit the Farmer’s Markets yet, but in spite of the tornados and floods and every other calamity that has been hitting agriculture in the United States, the produce right now is absolutely fabulous. My father, not particularly… Continue Reading “Farmer’s Markets”
Random articles like this one by Paul Collins in Slate are the reason I spend so much time online when I could be reading a book. If you had asked me cold to define the purpose of the semicolon, I would have said something… Continue Reading “The Death of the Semicolon”
The Next Dark Age 