Archive for September, 2011

Don’t Give Up on Crock Pot Cooking — Book Review

I gave up on the crock pot years ago because I didn’t like the tasteless grey mush that resulted. Sure, it was convenient to let something do the cooking all day, but the swill in the bowl wasn’t worth the anticipation. However, I LIKED the idea of dinner awaiting, so when I spotted Slow Cooker [...]

It’s a Good Hair Day and I Can Do Anything!

I am so ready to tackle the world today. I just got back from getting my hair cut, and for this one day, my hair will be perfect, and, as you know, when your hair is perfect, you can do anything. Theoretically, I should be able to repeat the “do” tomorrow, since I showed my [...]

Baby Boomer Grandparents — Like everything else, we do it our way

There’s dried fettuccini on the bathroom floor, which is a variation from the usual wet towels, but this time it’s not the teenagers’ fault. Toddler has been rummaging around the cupboards, plunging fat sticky hands in the oatmeal, tossing raisins at the dog, and now playing pick up sticks with the pasta. I think I [...]

The Dog Ate My (extremely expensive, Italian leather, got them on sale) Sandals

For the longest time, I’ve wanted to write about my $129 leather sandals. Now that I’ve launched my image of chic chick who shimmies through Macy’s, picking up accessories with my recently French manicured, slim fingers and carelessly tossing the goods back to the servant following in my wake, perhaps I should mention that I [...]

Dating Richard Gere

Lately the folks at Pandora Radio, through one of their pop up windows, have been trying to set me up on a date with hot guys in the 50s, all of whom look like Richard Gere. You’d think that, nailing my age more accurately than most of my friends, these cyber match makers would know [...]

Easy Dinner Idea: Teach a Teen to Cook

The most delightful thing is happening in the kitchen: one of the progeny is making lunch. Now just how delightful this is depends upon which progeny: College Girl cooks like the tornado that killed the Wicked Witch in the West, and the counters wind up so cluttered with dish detritus that the woman’s green body [...]

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