Last night, before the Top Chef finale (in which my beloved Hootie went down due to lack of self-confidence, and the Mountain Potato was crowned king), I attended a food cooperative sharing meeting. My student worker told me about this group, New Boston Collective, which puts in bulk orders for organic foods. These days I’ve [...]
Yesterday I kept getting emails regarding various Mardi Gras plans, which involved taking the day off work and roaming drunkenly downtown, and I kind of waved them off. We’re kind of busy at work these days, and I’m neither Catholic nor in need of plastic beads. E had mentioned maybe wanting to go to the [...]
Initially I found the lady who talks about her kids all the time annoying, but these days I have come around to admiring her impressive ability to turn every conversation, no matter how it begins, into being about her children. Today she wove a beautiful tapestry depicting her children’s illnesses out of the threads of [...]
Last week we decided to start rotating the reins for deciding potluck themes, and when we gave it over to our friend Jay, he went absolutely nuts with it: “Watermelon!” But wait, watermelon is definitely not in season. “No no, I meant metaphorical watermelon. Your dish can be visually like a watermelon, green on the [...]
