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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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“The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
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 [...]
“‘There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise for that.”
Oscar Wilde
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 [...]
