There is an artist studio available for rent in my building. The space and building is totally awesome. You can take the T line to just 1 block from the space or there is pretty close parking most of the time, though I’ve had a little trouble finding a spot if I get there during…

Apple #1 I had wrapped my first apple of 2009 in some ribbon and had every intention of eating it at midnight. We went out to dinner and instead of coming home at a reasonable hour, ended up at my friend Heather’s house where we consumed too much champagne and cigarettes. We got home sometime…

I didn’t want to have a new year’s resolution this year. It seems that over the past few months, I’ve been very good at starting things that I don’t ever intend to finish. There was the 1 art article a day plan in November, and a weight loss plan, an exercise plan, a more leafy…

I found a deal on pork shoulder this Christmas. I picked up 9 pounds of pork shoulder for $9. I thought I’d cut the large piece of meat up into 2-person servings so Tom and I would be stocked up for the winter in pork stews. Turns out there’s a very large (shoulder) bone in…

It has been chilly this year, and even in San Francisco where the temperature rarely dips below 55 during the day. Around Thanksgiving we stocked up our freezer with tons of turkey stock and pumpkin. We put some of our inventory to work last night in this hearty soup. 1 onion, diced4 celery stalks, diced2…

I got so many things for xmas, I need to write them down before I loose track. Hand Made Glass bowl from Heather Monty Python Trilogy from Tom Sweater from Tom Sweater and Skirt from Liz Hot water bottle with sweater from Liz Susan Sontag on Photography – book from George Chocolates from Tom Rothko…

Tom was looking back at the year and on the top of his list for things he learned this year was: “Marriage does change things, and its worth it.” That got me counting how long we’ve been married and thinking about how it’s changed things. We’re just about to reach our 5 month mark now.…

Regretfully I need to sell my beautiful scooter. It runs well, and I’ve had all my tune ups through the SF Scooter Center. There is minor body damage on one side from some lame-o who backed into it while leaving a parking space. I’ve hammered out the ding best I could but it’s still visible.…

This has been a great year, full of lots of exciting events. But I’m even more excited about 2009 so I can’t wait to say goodbye to 2008. Thanks for all the fun times, 2008! Even though there are so many irons in the fire, I feel like I have nothing to say. For the…

Hello peoples! This week has started out to be a rough one, and I’m recovering from an emotional hangover at the moment. I’m looking forward to sitting around on my arse for a little while over the extended weekend. Maybe we’ll do some mini road trips, but that will generally mostly involve me sitting on…

MagCloud is a self-publishing magazine service similar to lulu.com that takes care of all the hard stuff for you like managing subscriptions, printing, and shipping. All you do is upload a PDF and the rest is cake. I am so very, very excited about this idea that I’ve been dreaming up schemes. I’m hoping to…

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I was having a discussion with my friend Lynn today about Celeriac or celery root. I always thought celeriac was the English way of saying fennel and Lynn always thought it was celery root. She was right, but we also discovered that we didn’t know what celery root was. We’d gone our whole lives thinking…

There was a huge string of emails passed around in the SFBA message boards yesterday. It seems that there is still an open issue around mandarins and honeybees but it has nothing to do with AB771. Unfortunately, I’m a little frustrated with a call to arms that was misleading and incorrect and I’m done with…

I got a comment today from someone at the CDFA and now have questions about whether or not this honeybee/orange thing is still an issue. It looks like the bill (AB771) was passed this October, 2008 and there is nothing in the bill about banning honey bees from California’s mandarin orange groves. I’m assuming at…