Misc. Fun

Ok, honey, mommy’s leaving tomorrow morning at 6:30 am for an early flight to Seattle. Oh stop your crying! You know Nanny Hitchens will take good care of you: that whip she carries around is just for show. She’s a lovely woman, though even I wonder sometimes why she wears a leather mask. The numbers…

How do you surprise a woman who is nine months pregnant on her birthday? Meet Krisse and Josh: Josh e-mailed all of us a few weeks ago that Krisse, his very pregnant wife, was disappointed that she couldn’t celebrate her birthday. So he decided to surprise her. “But wait,” you may ask, “isn’t that dangerous?…

Meet Ramona, co-host of our first party–a latke party that I attended with Stella the other day. Ramona is the wife of one of my former teachers, a teacher who enjoys his anonymity. Suffice it to say that I was flattered to be invited to this teacher’s latke party (I didn’t even know this teacher…

This next party is a party we’ll want to leave fast. I’m embarrassed to say that my mother is the host. “Adam,” she said to me yesterday, “I have a great recipe I found from Hungry Girl.” My mom reads a diet-oriented food site called Hungry Girl which, I have come to believe, is the…

Surprise! It’s party day! We’re going to have five food parties right now on the site. I hope you brought your boogie shoes, leave your gift at the door. Are you ready to party? Let’s get to it!

Here’s a difference between journalism and blogging: the former relishes the new, the hot, the of-the-moment. Blogging, on the other hand, can pull back and talk about subjects that may be a bit dated but are, nonetheless, important and personal to the blogger. For example, book reviews only review new books but I just finished…