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As I mentioned in another post, the boyfriend and I got a copy of one of Thug Kitchen‘s excellent Cookbooks for Christmas, and I’ve decided to go ahead and make every recipe in the book, even the ones with disgusting eggplant, and then blog about it because that’s just what people do. So, yesterday, since…
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It’s that time again! My favorite new year tradition is clearing out the small bookshelf where I put all the books I’ve read within a calendar year, make a post about them, and then eagerly anticipate filling it with more books in the current year. Even the bookshelf itself is special; I remember my uncle…
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It’s here, it’s here The new year is finally here! And while I’m not really down with the whole “2016 was so shitty!” thing (certain aspects of it was, of course, but I had a lot of wonderful things happen to me personally in 2016, and, really, as my boyfriend said when I asked him…
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In my rush to finish up as many books as I can before the beginning of 2017 (where I shall strip my “Have Read” shelf clean and start anew), I’ve finally managed to finish Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated. Foer’s made some waves in the literary community, so I was pretty stoked to finally…
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I’m American, so we don’t really have Boxing Day here in the States, but I’ve always been a little bit fascinated by it, a holiday built up around a distinction in class and/or appreciation of the tradespeople that make Christmas Day possible. Maybe I’m just partial to it because I’ve always worked in the service…
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Even though we’ve only known each other professionally for a handful of years, it feels like Fallon Brown and I go way back, back to the times where I still had the wherewithal and the attention span to participate in the incredible A Round of Words in 80 Days group that I credit with helping…