In fact, there are two other Smitten blogs I frequent and subsequently drool over: one, because everything on it looks so delicious, and the other, because everything on it looks so delicious. Smitten Kitchen is the first: a food blog by a lady named Deb who cooks up yummy things in her tiny New York [...]
Entries from September 2009
September 11, 2009
Beautiful things.
When I lived with Anna in a sketchy-but-cute little apartment in Greensboro, North Carolina, I used to watch her rummaging through boxes in her room, hiding away bits of cash in envelopes, sweet little earrings in tiny boxes, poems and songs on torn-out pieces of notebook paper. She has always been a scavenger and a [...]
September 8, 2009
You’ll know when you know.
A few years ago, a friend of mine told me that when she laid in bed at night, beside her husband, she could almost feel electricity between them. ”Energy,” she said, “without trying to sound New Age-y. But it’s like energy. That’s how meant-to-be we are.” I liked the sound of that. And it’s true: [...]
September 3, 2009
Bake us, this day, our daily bread…
Want to know what I’m doing right now? No? Well, I’ll tell you anyway: I’m eating my breakfast, which consists of coffee and sourdough bread made by none other than…ME. Yesterday was my day off from teaching, and my friend Emily let me come over to her house and soak up her breadmaking knowledge – [...]
