my life
I have opinions, as anybody who knows me well can attest. As I’ve gotten older I think I have more patience for other people’s opinions and lifestyle choices. I just wish other people were on this journey with me. We are part of an open adoption with my daughter’s first family, grandparents, parents, the whole [...]
I grew up in suburbia, but spent all of my adult life living in rural areas, small towns, until last year. Some sort of fire lit in our family & we decided to move to a big city, Portland, Oregon. Packing & moving were hell, but now that we are settled, our quality of life [...]
Last October we lost a family member. She lived on the other side of the country, and we didn’t talk much, but it was a tremendous loss. The grief was different because only my household had ever met her, and yet we had planned to have her in our lives forever. It was this potential [...]
I got the voicemail from my dad a little while ago, my grandpa died eating lunch today. He was in a bad mood apparently, and my dad was suspecting he had another stroke. He was about to tell him that’s what he suspected, and my grandpa just stopped. He was born in 1916, we was [...]
I so wanted to be an awesome food blogger, I have so many opinions about food. Then life is happening. And although I continue to eat & have good & bad experiences in restaurants all over the world, food is only part of life. Meanwhile the comment spam keeps happening over here. And life continues [...]
Our Thanksgiving menu for 7 guests: Turkey & Tofurky Gravy Bread stuffing with dried cherries Glazed pearl onions Cranberry relish Mashed potatoes Sweet potatoes with pineapple & homemade vegetarian marshmallows Glazed yams Roasted green beans Corn on the cob Devilled eggs Cranberry orange bread Olives Fruit salad Pumpkin pie Fruitcake Cranberry upside-down cake Fudge (made [...]
Open for almost a year now, I have eaten at Renata’s many times. The location doesn’t have great parking, and it can be quite crowded, but the food is awesome. There are several good vegetarian choices as well as carnivore options. The salads are good, but really the crepes pretty well fill you up so [...]
Three things brought me to the Hard Rock Cafe in Baltimore. 1.Hunger 2.Novelty (I live in a small town) 3.Blogography I’ve been reading Dave at Blogography talk about the great veggie burger at Hard Rock for so long, I half expected the burger to come with a side of crack. I’ve never eaten at a [...]
There are many things to enjoy in Baltimore’s Little Italy, and La Scala is definitely one of them. It was not the only restaurant in Little Italy that I tried, but it was the best. I should have known when we they couldn’t accomodate our group on short notice the first night. Several nights later, [...]
I love a good vegetarian restaurant. What is better than that? A great vegetarian restaurant with reasonable prices and nice folks running the place. Being in a strange city and needing a meal, I usually start with Google maps and search for vegetarian restaurants. Liquid Earth came up on the first page for Baltimore, but [...]