This sounds more serious than it actually is, but I just ran out of tofu. For years I’ve bought the stuff, meaning to incorporate it into our eating lifestyle, and I have: we’ve eaten chocolate tofu pudding (silken tofu pulverized in a blender with sugar and cocoa); tofu scrambled eggs (soft tofu mashed with spices [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dogs’
Baby, It’s Cold Outside! (That’s Why I’m Inside)
December 14th, 2011
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Okay, so maybe this doesn’t mean much to you people in Scottsdale, Arizona, or Hilo, Hawaii, but Baby it’s cold outside! The Norwegian Artist and I regularly walk three miles a day, in one mile increments, but lately I’ve been joining the dog near the wood stove and giving the Norwegian That Look when he [...]
Thanksgiving Is a Mindset, Not a Day
November 23rd, 2011
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I was at the dentist’s office scribbling my way through a tiresome sheaf of forms asking about bladder infections and toenail fungus and an array of physical and mental disorders that had curiously little to do with my teeth, when I realized that I had blanketed the form with no’s, as in, “No, I do [...]
Sleeping Cats, Back to School Time, and the Link Between the Two
August 11th, 2011
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It’s amazing what you can learn by sitting on the porch all afternoon, watching the cats. Like this: cats sleep a lot. What is it — 18, 19 hours a day? I can understand why lions get exhausted, what with the difficulty of running down a zebra or a water buffalo, but lolling around the [...]
The Little Things Don’t Tweet and Ring
April 13th, 2011
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One of the phones buzzes; another one shrieks; the third one retches. When they all go off at once it sounds as if the dog is getting sick.
Home Office Space — The Final Frontier
March 3rd, 2011
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Really, I think that I am a remarkably easy woman to please, and back to my Stranger in the Afternoon who wanted to knit but didn’t have the space, I am flabbergasted at the barriers people put up in the way of getting things done — and I don’t mean walls that block out front doors.
