Oh, that reminds me. I made creme brulee for Father’s Day.It turned out OK! Also, I made barbecued chicken and the Best Beans Ever: 1 lb bacon.1 large can of baked beans, not institutional-size, but pretty large (we used maple-flavored).1 red onion, chopped in small but non-dainty chunks.1/4 c. blackstrap molasses or more to taste.Worchestershire […]

Amusing and delicious. Seeing as Ray was asleep on my shoulder, Lee ordered Chinese last night from the Swan Palace. On a whim, I ordered pineapple chicken. “You ordered pineapple chicken, right?” he asked. “Yeah.” “Well, you got pineapple chicken.” And then he brought me half a hollowed-out pineapple with stir fry in the middle.

Online Writer’s Workshop. I’ve been checking out the Online Writer’s Workshop. I’ve submitted the first section of the Gray Hill novel, received four reviews, and been very happy with them. Many good suggestions. I’m still on my free month, but I’m going to keep going with it. This means, mind you, I will have even

Madagascar. Did not suck. And did not wuss out on the question, “What do you do when you have a carnivore and an herbavore stuck on a desert island?” The more kids’ movies that don’t suck, the better.

Ray. I’m going to make this brief, because I’ve told the story and told it: My daughter learned how to escape the apartment. She ended up at the front office of our apartment complex, naked except for her jacket and the keys to the apartment. We cut off her escape route using chicken wire. She

Beginnings. I’m having problems coming up with a good beginning. I’m going to have to think it out for a while. Note that beginnings are often a combination of things. Opening Stasis: Shows things as they are before something significant changes. (As common as boy-meets-girl. LOTR. The Hobbit. Star Wars. If the characters are happy

Insight. Insight is when the obvious becomes the really obvious.

Song. I don’t know the name of the song. I have no idea what any of the lyrics are. The part that got stuck in my head was the piano in the beginning, a mountain-stream waterfall of piano. There’s a backbeat in there somewhere. The singer sounds like someone I should know, but not really.

David Sedaris: “My father has always placed a great deal of importance on his daughters’ physical beauty. It is, to him, their greatest asset, and he monitors their appearance with the intensity of a pimp. What can I say? He was born a long time ago and is convinced that marriage is a woman’s only

Heh. From Jackie: “She has more issues that Mad magazine.” I am easily amused.