Raw cranberry relish. I didn’t even know this was possible. For me, raw cranberries have had the taboo quality of all those other shiny, forbidden berries I was tempted to eat off the shrubbery when I was 5 years old. Really? You’re allowed to eat these raw?
When Rosalie’s teacher was telling me about it the other day, [...]
When I was 16 years old, I had a blue belt in Aikido. Sounds impressive, but it was one level above beginner. Mom was a higher belt than I was—perhaps brown?—and was definitely more committed to it than I was. Because I am a night owl, getting up at pain-o’clock on Sunday mornings for class [...]
There are sweet, cat-stretching-in-sunshine lazy weekends, and there are grumpy, immobilized-by-too-much-to-do lazy weekends. Unfortunately, mine was the latter this time. My laziness today was deep and eternal. That’s right, I changed the course of my life this weekend and have now become a surly knob of a human that still answers to my old name.
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