today, after wishing two of my long-time friends happy birthday (via twitter) and realizing that I’d never even met either of them, I began to think about all of the people I easily call friends, yet we’ve only communicated via the web. does this make them any less of a friend, or more? my internet friends […]
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let’s bake a cake.
gluten free white velvet birthday cake. for a special boy turning nine 2 3/4 cups sifted all purpose gluten free flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups sugar 2/3 cup vegetable oil 1/3 cup vegetable shortening; I used solid Crisco (at room temperature) 2 tablespoons good quality vanilla extract (if you want a pure white […]
beds.
the last morning with these two boys, in my tiny studio apartment on the Hudson River, I told them they could only watch a movie if they made my bed. “we don’t know how to make a bed!” figure it out, I told them. and you need to do it together, with no fighting. it […]
that time we packed everything we owned in my car, and got the hell out of new york.
(otherwise known as The Day We Became Minimalists Without Even Trying) 2013-14 will be the Years of Change. I’ve moved three times in less than twelve months. from a fourth floor apartment in a building filled with dying old people (literally, dying. when we moved out we were one of only three apartments with […]
clean that kitchen! (and other fun things to do while we wait for spring….)
it seems like it will never get here. I hear the birds outside my window in the morning. some days the sun is even shining. the mountains of snow are slowly becoming just piles of gray icy mass. yesterday it went up to 52 degrees here in the Hudson River Valley. but still, no spring. […]
a long road to a new path.
sometimes, most times, in life we have no idea where we’re headed. when we moved into our beautiful lakefront apartment back in august of 2013; I was working full time crazy hours as a general manager of a high end diner. we were making plans to buy a new couch, furnish the balcony, enjoy the […]
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