West of the Moon

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peach-blackberry.

Last summer I decided to try and teach myself to make pie crust.  I’ve mentioned this before, I think.  I spent a while reading recipes in all of my go-to cookbooks, spent a while reading around on the inernet, tried to figure out what advice to take and what advice to ignore, that kind of [...]

oh, and I have some exciting news.

You know that thing that happens sometimes, where you have something to tell someone, and for some reason you don’t do it right away, and then after a little bit of time has passed you start to feel like it’s weird to tell them -now-, because you should have told them last week?  And then [...]

Tags: wedding

summer driving.

Sunday morning, driving on I-95 somewhere in the middle of New Jersey, I passed an exit sign that indicated “Shore Points” and I was immediately struck with the powerful urge to take that exit, to head down the shore and spend the rest of my day at the beach or on the boardwalk, somewhere sun-soaked [...]

Shakespeare in the Park

Even though vacation usually means you can sleep in, I woke up at some crazy hour — earlier than I normally wake up for work! — so that I could go sit in Central Park all morning, in the hopes of getting tickets to see Twelfth Night.  Unless you can pay the $170/person for “summer [...]

bored now.

I feel like this is the kind of thing I shouldn’t admit, but honestly, I’m in kind of a reading slump where science fiction is concerned.
You know those moments where you’re casting about for something to read?  It used to be that my first impulse in those moments was always towards the science fiction or [...]

hello, northside.

Oh, I know I’ve been absent from the blog.  It’s not just the blog.  I’ve been absent from everything.  There was the school year, all that grading to be done, and then WisCon, and then I went to Colorado to grade AP exams, and then the end of the school year, including even more grading, [...]

well then.

This recent post from Ben made me laugh, partly because it’s a conversation I need to have with myself!  So here’s to turning off the internal editor and actually having some conversation.  A few points of interest, to start it off:

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a discussion on the New York Times’ [...]

The Post-Christmas Bedford Avenue Blues.

Frohe Tötentannenbäumenabfallentsorgungtag 2009!  (cf. Jackie M.)

natural history.

It turns out that dinosaur nuggets are not unlike chocolate rabbits, in that it’s a lot of fun to eat their heads first.

Seeds.

Happy New Year!