I was a few months pregnant when Tim asked when I was going to knit some bootees (aka booties) for the baby. I wondered why he hadn’t asked for the first child, he answered that he hadn’t known I could knit back then. Fair enough.
So I got some yarn in time for the trip to [...]
The Pacific Northwest is meant to be an area full of coffee bars and people addicted to the bean, but in Vancouver it’s not the number one addiction by any means, at least judging by the number of establishments you see. It’s far easier to find sushi than coffee! Some anecdotal evidence - we took [...]
Since a couple of members of the group I work in were in town for the Liberty meeting, I invited them to dinner last night. For dessert, I decided to make Rote Grütze, which is pretty much the standard dessert in Berlin at this time of year. It’s popular throughout Northern Germany, and I’m told [...]
A review of Nadeem Aslam’s “Maps for Lost Lovers”.
A review of Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
The bookclub decided to read Heinlein’s masterpiece — the brilliant spectacular and incredibly popular novel (quote from the back cover of the Ace Science Fiction edition, published in 1987). The book Stranger in a Strange Land hasn’t quite stood the test of time (assuming it ever did match up to the breathless praise). A couple [...]
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