April 2011
3 posts
thoughts while reading "Joy of Cooking"
1. Why do I always choose to look at this cookbook? The illustrations make culinary feats which are quite probably impossible look ridiculously easy thereby making me feel like an epic failure when I cannot, for example, hold a hot cake in one hand while coating the sides of it with chopped nuts. (confession: I selected this example because I haven’t experienced that specific...
March 2011
11 posts
“I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.”
“And the Psalms? I hope you like them?”
“No, sir.”
“No? Oh, shocking! I have a little boy, younger than you, who knows six Psalms by heart: and when you ask him which he would rather have, a...
February 2011
8 posts
worthy of visit when planning a proper tea party →
i am gilty
Gilt is maybe the best fashion eye candy website… ever. You can window shop and save up to 70% on pieces if you choose to purchase. Today was my first gilt purchase. I love House of Harlow 1960 designs and couldn’t pass up this locket ring. I can’t wait to put a picture of boyfriend and I in this ring! Bonus: it comes with a free leather cuff. Sigh… It’s love.
recipe for snowpocalypse vegetarian chili
Remember earlier this week when I was snatching up vintage sundresses via etsy? Mother Nature is a cruel mistress. It’s now less than 20 degrees in North Texas, everything within viewable distance is covered in ice, and it is perilous to drive anywhere. Since boyfriend and I did not pay heed to the warnings of impending ice doom we were stuck indoors with no groceries and (although not...
January 2011
9 posts
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
5 posts
“We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why...”
– taken from: The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides / film adaptation: 1999
Given that suicide scenes are the one thing I cannot handle I should have probably abstained from watching a film entitled “The Virgin Suicides” late at night. Since even literary references to suicide tend...
July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
3 posts
May 2010
7 posts
invisible electric fence.
I heard there’s a new craze among dog owners in suberbia. Invisible electric fences. Your dog lives under the pleasant dellusion that it’s free - until it hits that little invisible boundry then - zap! However, such invisible lines have thier merits.
I wish the internet would adopt such security measures. There should be something that prevents you from running into bits and...
A Rose for Emily →
“… we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.” - A Rose for Emily : II
Because I’ve just decided to devote what’s left of the day to reading Faulkner and drinking iced tea. My heart, and mind, need a break.
c'est le guerre : all's fair in love and war
“Literally: “It’s the war!” This French phrase of resignation gained widespread use during World War II. It provided the universal excuse for everything that was broken, no longer functioned, was unavailable or could not be accomplished. It also explained away all unusual behavior. That it is in the language of a nation whose life and joie de vivre was being crushed by an...
“To ease one’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
– Abraham Lincoln
the wit of the staircase.
“People in France have a phrase: “staircase wit.” In French: esprit de l’escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer, but it’s too late. Say you’re at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party…. As you start down the stairway, then-magic. You come up with the...