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May 11, 2015
Sunday’s Cake, Friday’s Cocktail…and a Room with a View
Okay, I’m back, and it’s time to get into the groove with a blog entry, right. So, here we go. Friday’s cocktail almost didn’t happen because . . . Wait, what? Oh, you want to know about the house? Well, … Continue reading →
April 29, 2015
Getting My Houses in Order
Boy, what a bumpy five, six months it’s been, what with Egmont and now this looming move. I’m kind of frazzled, and this entry reflects that because it’s in two parts. I started it days ago at a Starbucks in … Continue reading →
April 6, 2015
Sunday’s Cake, Friday’s Cocktail . . . and What I’d Rather Not Post
I’m so tempted to make the foodie portion of this long and drawn-out, but that won’t change what I’m going to post. So if you’d rather skip over the pics and jump to the end, be my guest. I’ll catch … Continue reading →
March 16, 2015
Sunday’s Cake (not); Friday’s Cocktail; and DICKENS MIRROR in the wild
Full disclosure: I’m writing this on Saturday–wait, shouldn’t I be baking a pi(e)?–because, by this time tomorrow, I’ll be halfway across the pond. My UK trip is only partly pleasure;I’ve planned to take in a few plays, for example. (Hint: … Continue reading →
March 8, 2015
Sunday’s Cake, Friday’s Cocktail, DICKENS MIRROR . . . and an ASHES Movie?
If you remember, last week I made a Diamond Blue in honor of Leonard Nimoy. That meant I also had about a half bottle of Champagne still sitting around, begging to be drunk before it lost its fizz. So I … Continue reading →
March 1, 2015
Sunday’s Cake, Friday’s Cocktail . . . and Lerner!
Full disclosure: there is no Sunday’s Cake at this moment. The husband’s leaving town for a couple days and so if he’s not going to whisk a cake away to his lab, there’s no way I’m tempting fate by having … Continue reading →
February 22, 2015
Sunday’s Cake, Friday’s Cocktail, and That Call You Never Want To Take
I’ve been on the road for most of the last week, so I didn’t do up a Friday’s cocktail until Sunday, although I had the Vidalia-version of the Old-Fashioned at Vidalia, this fabulous Southern-style restaurant in D.C., on Wednesday. This … Continue reading →
February 15, 2015
Sunday’s Cake, Friday’s Cocktail…and Egmont’s Last List on YA Interrobang!
So this week I decided to experiment with what was reportedly one of Hemingway’s favorites that he contributed to a celebrity book of cocktails way back in 1935, Death in the Afternoon: a heady, boozy concoction of absinthe and Champagne. … Continue reading →
February 8, 2015
Sunday’s Cake, Friday’s Cocktail…and Egmont’s Last List
As you can see, I’ve been remiss these past two weeks. One Sunday, I was working to a deadline and so the cake didn’t happen. Last week, I was at the ALA Midwinter on Saturday (bittersweet dinner with some EgmontUSA … Continue reading →
January 25, 2015
From the Sublime to the Kafka-esque
No Sunday’s cake today: the husband’s out of town, and so any cake would sit here begging me to stick it with a fork. Rather than succumb to temptation, I figure . . . next week. The White Ladies we … Continue reading →
