In addition to hockey, fall equals baking. Last night, I made lemon cupcakes to bring to Matt’s. His parents are in town, and his aunt and uncle will be there for dinner tonight. His dad is always excited about baked things, and so it makes me very glad to provide them. I brought leftovers to work, and they disappeared within ...

Recipe for an excellent Tuesday: going through three pairs of underpants in a day1 Ethiopian food2 a glass of gin3 seeing the Weakerthans4 obtaining this5 still having time to knit and curl up on the couch6 So, I posted here the last two days IN A ROW. Since that’s one more day than I usually manage to post consecutively, I’ve ...

So, say you decide to go downstairs and get a pop, and as you’re standing there waiting for the elevator, you can’t help thinking about how the Weakerthans are most certainly going to play Virtue the Cat Explains Her Departure tonight, and how there’s no possible way you’ll be able to keep from bawling your head off, especially with this ...

sigh. Camping was SO AWESOME. It’s hard to be back at a desk in clean clothes, making lunch in the microwave instead of charring it over a fire. We spent the weekend at Brunet Island in Wisconsin, a state park a couple of hours away from here. I can’t believe I’d never heard of the area before, because it was ...