Birthday Season
May 25, 2012

Birthday Season

Every year come May, there is a slight explosion of birthdays for my family. In addition to my own, I celebrate uncles’, cousins’, my sister’s and father’s. My parent’s wedding anniversary also happens to fall in this...

So Now It Is
May 22, 2012

So Now It Is

Very warm outside since my last update.Posting has been much an afterthought for me lately. My typical day has taken on the following pattern. Commute. Work. Commute. Sleep. Commute. Work. Commute. Sleep…and so forth....

Summer Yet
Apr 30, 2012

Summer Yet

I am anxious for the smell of burning charcoal and days of frisbee outside. This April has been colder than March was. Summer seems devastatingly far away. Equipped with some skewers, chicken and a broiler I decided...

Monday Ritual
Apr 25, 2012

Monday Ritual

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a haphazard bowl of ingredients thrown together that warms you, fills you up and happens to taste good. I go for salty, briny or spicy concoctions in deep ceramics, caressed by a...

Chunky Bunny.
Apr 10, 2012

Chunky Bunny.

The other day, well, yesterday actually, I went to go put on a pair of jeans I quite like. They did not fit. It wasn’t just the common but endurable “oh these are rather snug” tightness. The button and hole suffered a...

Noodles!
Mar 15, 2012

Noodles!

You know when someone gives you something that just ‘hits the spot’? Perhaps the thing fulfilled a craving you hadn’t anticipated. Cured an ache you hadn’t known was there. I had that yesterday. At my desk, curled up...

Thailand.
Mar 9, 2012

Thailand.

I did not die, disappear or give up quite so easily. I was here for the past two weeks:

Pastimes
Feb 12, 2012

Pastimes

One of my resolutions is to learn more about sports, in particular football. I am terrible. There was a Buffalo Wild Wings ad on the radio awhile ago where a guy is posed with the question along the lines of – “Who...