12/31/22

One time for 2022 - FOOD

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No, literally, I'm going to blog once this whole year. It has been a year of personal and professional growth, but as you can tell, it...
11/6/21

Dividing Lilies

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Plants are great. They are so chill that they are like, hey, if you divvy us up, we'll propagate more, free plants and flowers. I am ver...
7/11/21

Podcast on migraines and new developments in treatment and prevention

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In general, I don't experiences headaches or migraines. A blessing, indeed. Yet, many friends and family have struggled with migraines f...
7/9/21

Summer and the grilling is easy. And safe.

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I have family members that have long been in the food safety industry, so I really can't be messing around when making food for them. Si...
7/5/21

Checking your sunscreen and hand sanitizer for bad news benzene

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During the summer months, my pale skin will get crispy quick. Each year, I stock up on some spray on, 50 SPF protection stuff. I love the Ne...
5/17/21

Shipping and solipsism

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The older I get, the more comfortable I force myself to be with change. It has been a long time since I read something that was like, "...
3/24/21

OED's words of 2020 and also: cognoscente

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In the olden days, I started a Twitter account to keep track of vocabulary words. Sometimes a word just hits different and today I had to sh...
2/6/21

Search the Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Much like in most of the Midwest, it's dang cold in Michigan and I'm not interested in leaving the house. If you are looking for som...
1/9/21

Roasted Chicken

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There are about a million ways to roast a chicken. I looked. For my first chicken roasting attempt, I was dismayed to find the grocery store...
1/3/21

New habits for the new year

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Recently I finished a book called The Power of Habit  by Charles Duhigg . This book sat on my "To-Read" shelf in Goodreads since 2...