A Day by the Ocean
Sometimes even writers don't need words.Thank you Mary Fran and Chrysa for a wonderful day!Click the arrow on the left under the picture to start the slide show.Vote for your favorite by leaving a comment.Enjoy!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Feeling Good? A Dose of Guilt Will Fix That
A Middle Aged Woman Laughs in the Face of the GuiltiesBy: Mary Fran BontempoI knew before I even got home that further action would be required.In the basket of my bike lay three bracelets, newly purchased from one of my favorite Ocean City boutiques. Next to them was the remains of a breakfast pastry bought at a boardwalk coffee shop and in my hand, a cup of iced coffee rested as I pedaled [...]
Laughing @ Middle Age, a Cartoon by Pat Achilles
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Terribly Happy directed by Henrik Ruben Genz
I almost killed a girl last evening in my way to the movies. She ran in front of my car from the sidewalk and would have been her fault had I hit her. Luckily I braked hard and the car stopped and she reached the other side unharmed. It was an eerie reminder of how quick a normal day can take a turn for disaster.Strangely enough, Terribly Happy, the movie I watched later, [...]
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 [...]