Chrysa Smith – Page 43 – Not Ready for Granny Panties

Just Another Day at the Salon

by Chrysa SmithScissors are snipping. Phones are ringing. Dryers are blowing.It's a typical day at Robbye's-- http://robbyesgentlegroomers.com/ --the salon where the poodle posse goes to get cleaned, cut, fluffed and returned to me looking and smelling like properly primped poodles. I chuckle when I drop the 'boys' off, and chuckle when I pick them up. Because in addition to getting the monthly proper cleaning that most humans do daily, these four legged friends [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:49-04:00September 19th, 2010|1 Comment

Texture, Taste & Tentacles

by Chrysa SmithMy fellow blogger Carmen is a good friend and a good cook. I've eaten her flambeed flan dessert, her chocolate cake, her Spanish tortas and cheese. So when she invited my husband and me over for dinner, I responded with an immediate 'yes.' Not only was it a chance to sample some authentic Spanish cuisine (She's from Galicia in Northern Spain), but her son was home from school----a chance to meet [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:50-04:00September 16th, 2010|2 Comments

Wanted: A Night in a Real Kitchen

by Chrysa SmithAll this writing about food makes me hungry. It makes me love cooking on my new Bertazzoni gas range. It makes me love my abundant yield of tomatoes and red peppers from the garden. And perhaps, that's what's also fueled my appetite this summer. But as I write about food again, the wheels are churning. And the churning keeps coming up with the same thought lately---one that is on my bucket [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:50-04:00September 15th, 2010|0 Comments

Going to Market

by Chrysa Smith For several years, I've been wanting to go to Chelsea Market in NYC.It's a foodie attraction, housed in an old Nabisco warehouse in the Meat Packing District of the city--a fairly hip and trendy area (once the site of hanging slabs of beef). It's been featured on the Food Network (which has office space in the building) and in culinary mags. So yesterday, with son back at college and husband [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:50-04:00September 9th, 2010|0 Comments

Grunts & Groans on Work Styles

by Chrysa SmithJust recently, someone passed a comment about my very flexible work schedule. They referred to me as someone who 'doesn't work.' That's interesting. Because while I'm not out the door to a different physical workspace in the early hours of the morning, I am in my office for hours on most days, sending emails, correcting manuscripts, writing, marketing, promoting my self-published book series---all in between one of my most favorite jobs [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:51-04:00September 1st, 2010|2 Comments

Enough with the Tomatoes Already!

by Chrysa SmithI couldn't wait until the little fellas got here.Now, I can't keep up with them.Despite the record heat, I had a great bumper crop of tomatoes----round, red, ripe and delicious. But, not wanting to waste a precious one, I've been cooking with them, eating them on bread and giving them away in order to keep them in use by those who might appreciate them. It's been no easy task. So today, [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:52-04:00August 26th, 2010|0 Comments

Men in Cats Clothing

by Chrysa SmithIn the warmer months of the year, my husband's been known to play on up to three recreational softball teams at the same time. Who's afraid of growing old? I digress. Forgive me. The real point of my writing here is not to talk about his desire to keep the athlete running well into senior years, but to talk and giggle about middle-age men, just as catty and manipulative as a [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:52-04:00August 25th, 2010|1 Comment