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February 7, 2009

Wine Tasting

 

A friend of mine recently mentioned that one of his co-workers was looking forward to the new season of “Hell’s Kitchen”. While I am a fan of several reality shows, including “Top Chef, I told him I had no desire to ever watch that show again…as I get to see “hell’s kitchen” up close and [...]

February 6, 2009

Buy a Book Today

Wow! What a difference a week makes as there are no longer throngs of people crowding the streets in downtown DC. In fact this afternoon was a breezy mostly solitary commute, punctuated by an occasional salt truck or two.No cheering crowds, no banners, television crews, military uniforms- only a couple of banks of rented bleachers [...]

August 28, 2008

One Line Zingers…

The restaurant rating site www.Zagat.com has a section called Outtakes that are quotes from diner’s reviews of individualrestaurants in the Los Angeles area. Each one is the “Out take of the Week.”  Here is a sampling:
  What they lack in quality, they make up for with butter.
  The waiters are trained to bang into you.
  [...]

December 26, 2007

Eyes…

“The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust

December 24, 2007

Seeing is Believing…

My demi-hope that somehow I had been miss-diagnosed as having a bone fracture have been dashed. Aside from the fact that I ended up at one of the best teaching hospitals in the world = George Washington- I was wishing for “on closer examination of the CT”s, MRI and x-rays reveal that you do NOT [...]

December 19, 2007

Surfing with Destiny…

“‘There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise for that.”
Oscar Wilde
 

December 17, 2007

One Loop at a Time…

Today I am happily making potholders one loop at a time, jut like the ones we learned how to make in elementary school. The quality control on the loops is not as grand as I remember them, some are way too short or break when they are stretched. And many things are the same- the [...]

December 12, 2007

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