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Cilantro is the Spanish word for the leaves of the coriander plant (it’s also sometimes called Chinese parsley). It’s used the world over under different names, so I grew up being forced to eat it occasionally. Believe me, I wish I could li…
I start out my mornings (sometimes in the dark) looking at these steps. It’s a bit hard to tell from this picture, but it’s four steep flights that snake between houses to take you to the next street (I live in a hilly location). Once you c…
Do you ever get obsessed with a song? And no, I don’t mean those earworms, where you hear a catchy tune and can’t get it out of your head for a while. I’m talking about a song that you like so much that you listen to it all the time. …
I’m sure I’m not alone in having made some new discoveries this year. Some of them were good, some of them were bad (for me), and some of them were downright weird. But they will (partly) define my year. So let’s share our new discove…
It is entirely appropriate that I am blogging on the day the world ends because I’m married to a man who’s been predicting doom and gloom since the day we met. He’s not as bad as those survivalists you see on TV, but he does expect &…