Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
I’ve been online since the dawn of the graphical browser, and its amazing how much the internet has changed. But what’s also amazing is how much it has also stayed the same in so many ways–bullies have been online, writ large, since the days that the internet was strictly text-only. But in my day, I…
As a film school nerd married to a film buff, I’d argue that my six-year-old has already had a somewhat unconventional upbringing when it comes to popular cinema–we’ve plopped him in front of virtually every appropriate 80s and 90s movie (and even a few less appropriate ones) that we could get our hands on. Movies have…
My dad has compulsion; it manifests itself in the collection of… things. He’s done stamps, rocks, photography equipment, antique watches, Honiton lace, guitars, comics, coins, guns, jewelry, and flow-blue china. These are the ones I know about–there’s probably dozens of ones I don’t. The problem with my dad’s passing obsessions is that he’ll lose interest in…
Today I’ve got a special surprise… one of my good friends, Sarah from Established 1975 recently was published in a new book by the Science of Parenthood. It’s called The Big Book of Parenting Tweets. The book is a collection of some of the most hilarious tweets about parenting you’ll find on Twitter. You’ll find yourself…
Most of my reading the last little bit has been taken up with reading and shopping for cookbooks, which is SUPER exciting, I know! Mostly it involves looking for ideas that haven’t been done to death for a new twist or an old classic, especially now that I’m writing for YMC. Oh, right, I…
Because my brain sometimes comes up with weird associations, as I sit here, writing about Things I Read, for some reason I have the Masterpiece Theatre theme song playing in the back of my head. And then I free-flow to how Sesame Street used to have a parody spoof, with Cookie Monster, which got all…
Welcome to my inaugural #ThingsIReadThursday, because regular things like this are going to help me get through this NaBloPoMo challenge between recipe creation and my other work. I spend a ton of time reading on a bunch of different subjects every day, and sometimes I troll through some really interesting stuff. So it seems like…
You guys know how much I like my books. Raincoast Books was a dear and sent me Josey Baker Bread. It’s not only a fabulous recipe book with a cute guy in it, it’s a story about a guy who never ever thought he’d end up in the place he was as a full time baker;…
I’m always on the lookout for new great authors, because honestly I read too much. I can go through the entire 12 volume series of a romance novel writer in a 2 month period. Okay, so I don’t usually read crime thrillers… they’re not my preferred genre (that would be SF, Fantasy, Romance, and Cookbooks,…
Encouraging early reading has sort of gotten a bad rap. For the love of me, I can’t understand why. I was an early reader. My father was an early reader. My son is now also an early reader, and it’s turned him into a happy and precocious little kid who reads some surprisingly humongous words…