Filed under: Newborns, Siblings, Weird but true If this happened to me, I know I would be pissed. Because, after all, what's the point of throwing your New Year's Eve away to have a kid if you don't get the full year's tax deduction for the year just ended? Well, Tarrance and Tangernika Woods at lea...

If you woke up from your New Year’s hangover, immediately reached into your vest, found your fishing license expired, and thought “damn, I spent that thirty bucks, and then some, at the bar the last night”, there’s no need to worry. You can fish on that 2008 license until Mar...

What would the New Year be without that time-honored publishing tradition: predictions ? By the time you read this post it will be January already, but as I write it the champagne corks have yet to pop, so ......

Booya! I just heard that the goddamned Xmas trees have vanished from Undercity and Silvermoon, so Shaharrazad's exile to the wilderness can at last be ended. I think I would have been less annoyed if Blizzard had admitted this was catering to Xmas, instead of trying to pass it off as something calle...

Filed under: Recipes, Pork, Southern States, America, Comfort Food, Celebrations, Holidays, New Year's, Guilty Pleasures, Winter, Festive Family Feasts Happy New Year, all! Hope everyone had a warm, festive Eve and is relatively headache-free and rested post-revelry. Now, there are as many ways to p...

As I said last night on my Facebook account, here we go again. My first New Year's Day in Providence. Spooky and I spent the evening quietly, at home, the way we spend almost every evening. I am, of course, getting ahead of myself. This should begin with the snow. Or, no, it should begin with the in...

Screw Tylenol. What you need is hair of the dog....

I used to find people who spouted what I considered to be trite phrases like "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" to be very irritating - on the same level with those who plastered smiley faces on everything they owned. However, I have since had to repent of that opinion and attitude, b...

“There are children of God who need this text, ‘Behold, I make all things new,’ whose sigh is that they so soon grow dull and weary in the ways of God, and therefore they need daily renewing. After a few months a vigorous young Christian will begin to cool down; and those who have been long in...

I spent some time yesterday at Musee De l'Orangerie with two of my teenage kids. Its an art museum in the Tuleries housing the art collection of Walter and Guillaume and Monet's famous Waterlilies paintings. That's a Modigliani painting of Paul Guillame from the l'Orangerie collection on the right. ...