Lately, I’ve been waking up early in the morning, a little more than an hour before Trenton’s alarm goes off. I’m not a morning person, so I transition from sleeping to full-human slowly, like an astronaut regaining her Earth legs. My morning routine goes mostly like this: The alarm on my phone starts playing some […]
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The Trolley Song
The sky was filled with dark, juicy clouds threatening to split apart into storms at any moment, but the top was still down on the Miata when Lucy arrived to pick me up. This morning, like most mornings, Lucy was blasting Judy Garland through the Miata’s exhausted stereo. “CLANG CLANG CLANG went the trolley!” she […]
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On faith, Part 1
I am—have always been, truly—an atheist. Despite wrestling with various gray-scale phases of religiousness over the course of my life, I’ve never made it over that fundamental chasm, the binary yes or no of theism. Even when I desperately wanted to believe, I could never get there. I like to think I gave Christianity a […]
Read more...something about being young
I leaned over in my seat and whispered to Jessica, “This is the last time they’ll all be on stage together.” I hadn’t meant it to be mean, but I saw her wince and immediately regretted it, feeling like the big sister that leans down from the top bunk to whisper “mom and dad are […]
Read more...gibs!
This weekend I played Sims 3 for the very first time. I started by creating a replica couple named Elsbe and Trenfon that were as alike to us as I could manipulate, using only 5 personality traits. Elsbe liked to cook and read, and was a vegetarian. Trenfon was a friendly computer whiz, also a […]
Read more...locavores
We got some beautiful carrots with the greens attached in our CSA box this week, along with some beets that I initially mistook for radishes, a zucchini, a cucumber that I initially mistook for another zucchini (it was dark, okay?), some green beans, a big bunch of basil, and an onion. We also got our […]
Read more...tofu & snap pea stir-fry with brown rice
Trenton wants to make a collection of recipes but I’ve kind of been dreading the prospect of transcribing some of the dinners I make. I don’t measure ingredients; I don’t time anything. I taste a lot and make it up as I go. That said, it would be pretty cool to catalog some of my […]
Read more...Nightswimming
I was sitting at my desk focused on some regular and trivial task at work, when the first few chords of Nightswimming came through my headphones, simple and incredibly familiar. In a flash, my heart rate changed, my breath caught in my chest, and I was transported back to a very specific place and time, […]
Read more...Bombay potatoes, green beans
I was all set to make Bombay potatoes the other day, but then reminded myself that we didn’t have the requisite frying pan. Using this Jamie Oliver recipe as inspiration, I made some modifications and prepped some bitchin’ roasted Bombay potatoes in the oven instead. Ingredients:potatoes (duh) peeled & cubedroughly 2 tbsp olive oila bit […]
Read more...veggie fried rice
When we started unpacking on that first day in the new house, Trenton and I soon discovered that we were missing some key pieces of kitchenware—namely, pots and pans. Knowing I had only a wok and some wooden spoons, it didn’t take me long to think up a simple, yummy meal. Fried rice has become […]
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