Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
From St. Martin’s Press and the author of ‘Dry‘, ‘Running With Scissors‘, ‘Wolf at the Table‘ and ‘Magical Thinking‘ comes, “You Better Not Cry.” In this memoir Augusten Burroughs illustrates how Christmas brings out the best and worst in people (you will see yourself between the pages), and he does [...]
Another post with photos from our day with Joy. Â I gave Joy my snorkeling stuff and sent her off with the scientist (Amoeba) to hunt for exciting sea life, while I played with the boring stuff in the shallows. Â I have no idea what Amoeba was showing Joy [...]
Here are the answers to: One is Not Like the Others. Â Yesterday I asked you to guess which one of the following 10 things isn’t true. I had a lot of fun with your guesses. We could leave it like that, but I figured you’d want the truth. 1.) My [...]
August 2001, Kabul, Afghanistan: Eight relief workers from Shelter Now International — German citizens George Taubmann, Katrin Jelinek, Margrit Stebner, and Silke Durrkopf; along with Australians Peter Bunch, and Diana Thomas; and two Americans Heather Mercer, and Dayna Curry — were arrested by the Taliban. Officially they were never accused [...]
Burgers like this aren’t something I cook often anymore. I did make one today for Amoeba. This has slightly more than a quarter pound (pre-cooked weight) of hamburger in it. Amoeba found one burger to be quite satisfactory — along with some star fruit, some dried cranberries and a mound [...]