Those updates in my sidebar, the ones at the top in the “about me” section are my “twitters”, or “tweets”, from twitter.com. What is twitter.com you ask? And why on God’s green (but warming) Earth would you use it? I’ll answer this in three ways. Because each represents a different way that I use twitter. […]

Tonight I made a simple pasta sauce of butter, lemon and cheese. The book the recipe came from, 1,000 Italian Recipes by Michele Scicolone says this could be an Italian still life. Ahh, I love the classics. I’ll have a photo next time.

This little fellow is all gone now. Ate him (or her) on a bed of pasta with garlic and red pepper flakes. I’m a happy camper today. iTunes now has the X Files for download. I immediately got the episode about Gibsonton, Florida, “Humbug”. I plan to get a few more of the monster-of-the-week episodes […]

A couple weeks ago I took some pistachios to work. I rediscovered them after a good friend, Laurie, brought some back from Greece for me. The Grecian pistachios were terrific. Full of flavor. The ones I bought at the local supermarket here in DC were fine. A bit salty, but not great, they just didn’t […]

Tonight I used my pressure cooker and made a favorite risotto. Smoked mozzarella and sun-dried tomato. On the side is some swiss chard I made a while back and froze. It heated up nicely. The mozzarella was bought at the Sunday DuPont Circle Farmers Market, as was the swiss chard. This meal took less than […]

I am saddened by the news that Obama has left his church. To me, this decision tells us more about our culture and how we view “membership” and commitment than it tells us about Obama and his spiritual life. A couple months ago when Obama gave his speech in Philadelphia on race he talked about […]

What a video.

In 2000 George W. Bush said that when he was young and foolish he did young and foolish things. When his drunk driving arrest became public he said he did not divulge it himself because he did not want his daughters to know about it. The cover story in yesterday’s Washington Post Magazine is about […]

Today my workplace had a spiritual retreat where we slowed down and painted our own plates for the office. We went to a cute little place in Silver Spring where we got to pick out our plates and paint them in preparation for glazing and firing. Having done pottery, I was disappointed the plates were […]

Ok. The flickr feed in the sidebar is a feed of my iPhone pics. Mary and I are using “technology to bridge the geographic divide.” Sounds so web 2.0, but so what, it works. We’re both taking pics and sharing them so we can still be a part of each other’s experience. Check out the […]