During New Year’s week, while catching up on Twitter post-holiday rush, a tweet from Jackie, aka The Diva that Ate New York, caught my eye: “Can my New Year resolutions just be list of restaurants I resolve to eat in the next year?” Man, talk about a way to make New Year’s resolutions fun and… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Travel
The Beehive Cafe’s Lemon Mousse Cake
Because I am half 80, or twice 20, or at least I presume that this math is the reason, I was the recipient of two birthday cakes. One, a luscious chocolate mousse cake from Pastiche on Providence’s Federal Hill, the other, this: A little worse for wear, having been batted about the cake box on… Continue Reading
My Own Personal Restaurant Week: The Back Eddy
As you probably realize, being financially embarrassed doesn’t allow for a whole lot of restaurant meals. However, for the next few posts I’ll be focusing on restaurant meals. Some of these meals are in celebration of the fact that I am about to turn half 80 this week (which sounds far more horrible than twice… Continue Reading
Just Me
“I don’t know about you, but I think of fall as a new beginning,” JR said one evening last week as we sat in the garden. “Yeah, me too,” I exclaimed, surprised as much that we shared this philosophy as I was that after six years of marriage, and nearly twenty years of our lives… Continue Reading
Memories of Zucchini Blossoms Past
Despite the Northeast’s dreary weather conditions for what now seems like months, not weeks, the garden marches on. It rewards us with the promise of copious zucchini blossoms, showing at least the squash’s appreciation of my pest management. I have progressed from the Jar of Death method I had used prior to the constant rains,… Continue Reading