Things are a bit chaotic at my house these days, because we’ve just added a new puppy and a foster dog to the pair of pooches we already had. In preparation, I began researching dog trainers in my area, because my younger dog, Cleo, has a barking habit, and because I wanted to make sure […]
Jamie Oliver (our Man of the Moment in December 2008) has just launched his latest project Recipease here in the UK. Recipease is a new food and kitchen shop where you can learn to cook and make great food. You can book a lesson to come into the shop and make a meal in around 10 minutes (they have all the ingredients ready and waiting), buy freshly made food, or attend one of the longer classes to learn more about cooking. The goal is to open various food and kitchen emporiums around the UK, with the first opening on February 26th in Clapham Junction.
Is it just me, or is 2009 already running away with you too? It’s hard to believe that the Christmas hols are over, the New Years Eve party is all but a distant memory (for more reasons than one) and January is pretty much done and dusted. Hmmmm… Do you think it’s an age thing or is time […]
I’m somewhat hard-pressed to say what “it” is that snuck up on me again this year. Guilt? Exasperation? An elusive and loosely defined sentimentality based more on habit and cultural influence more than anything else? Once again, like so many others, I have found myself frustrated and resentful at the commercial inundation to Buy! Buy! […]
Christmas Past
As a young mum I remember Christmases where all the family came for the day and the days and weeks before were spent shopping for mountains of food. The house was full of grandparents, children and pets and bin liners full of wrapping paper were stored in the garage until they could be disposed […]
It was a classic problem, dishwasher’s not running properly, call the repair man. I was sure the machine was defective, or perhpas that pipes weren’t properly connecting, causing one in four loads to end up with standing water after the cycle was complete. You can imagine my embarrasment when I learned that the dishwasher was […]
When I was a teacher it soon became obvious that children who were unhappy were less able to learn. If a child was going through a trauma such as grieving or going through an unfriendly parental separation they would be unable to concentrate. Although this may seem blatantly obvious, it is often not obvious to […]
Sometimes the anomalies in life just hit me. We’ve been struggling with the rampant growth of greenery (for greenery read weeds) in our garden this year. Everything is so green and lush. I have spent hours losing the battle to clear the bindweed, dandelions, nettles and horses tail from the ground, at the same time […]
Lynn Biederman is the co-author of Unraveling, which was reviewed in our July, 2008 issue. She recently took a few moments to jot down some of her thoughts for us, and here’s what she had to say:
* * * * *At the ripe age of 45, I’m going through some virgin moments: My first novel, […]
My husband and I are hosting a Japanese exchange student for three weeks this summer. It’s our first time, our trial run before considering hosting a student for an entire school year. Our student is a teenage girl from Tokyo. As a childless couple, we’d spent a fair amount of time before […]
We have just spent a week at Selsey Bill, which is on a peninsular on the South coast of England. The house we rented sat at the water’s edge (literally) and the spray from the sea made the windows misty white with deposited salt. In the water directly ahead of us was a post to […]
I’m not big into jewelery. Most days all I wear is my wedding and engagement rings. That’s it. When I go out, I tend to wear rather subdued clothes - all very much “nature colours” and chocolate brown is a staple for me. I do however, love snazzing-up an outfit with a really lovely, bright […]
During the weekend that just ended, I found myself nursing a very sore right arm (too much computing), not in the mood for television, and soothed by a lovely rainstorm outside my window. I had a stack of novels waiting to be read for review, and I curled up on the couch with the dogs, […]
“But you will soon find that independence, more truthfully than virtue, is its own reward. It gives you a grand feeling. Standing on your own feet is extraordinarily exhilarating…”
Those are not the words at the end of a Sex and the City episode, but a quote from the book Live Alone and Like […]
My oldest daughter is sporting purple hair right now. Not a deep wine you might find on me as the days become shorter and fall bleeds into winter, but a neon purple that can only be worn by someone that’s incredibly artistic. It wasn’t a total surprise to me when she excitedly told me her […]
Just as Deb loves newsprint, I have a special affinity for the scratching of a pen across fine paper - the kind with a high linen content, and a texture designed to absorb real ink, not the gloppy stuff that oozes forth from cheap ballpoint pens.
For my thirteenth birthday, my mother and my aunt […]
Marsha Mason has been one of America's favorite actors since she first came to national attention when she starred in The Goodbye Girl.
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Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist, who makes his living publishing fine art prints via the internet.
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