About a week or two ago, my friend Karen told me that the night before, her five year old son, Oliver, was getting ready for bed and asked for a nightcap. And no, I don’t mean an alcoholic drink… Karen offered to cut the leg off of one of Oliver’s old pair of pajamas […]
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Dinner at St. Dames
Last night, my lovely friend Rain (over at Rainblissed blog) took us out for dinner to celebrate the completion of my generals. We went to St. Dames, in the Rainier Valley neighborhood of Seattle. Eric and I go to St. Dames semi-regularly when we’re in the mood for vegan/vegetarian comfort food and when we have some time to […]
The General Exam Saga Concludes
Well… I passed the Generals. After nearly a year of active preparation for this exam, I made it through and my committee granted me doctoral candidacy. Yippee!!! And the best part–I didn’t even cry this time. The exam consisted of a 2.5 hour conversation/inquisition with my committee and they pushed me in very productive ways. I […]
Week in Review: Random things and the Generals Exam
The last week or so has been up and down. My anxiety level has been pretty high. I think it’s been a combination of the fact that Thanksgiving break really wiped me out, and I had ‘December 5’ looming in front of me. Well, today is December 5th, and that means that I have to […]
Apple Cider Vinegar
I have a little love affair with apple cider vinegar. I originally started using it in salad dressings, particularly for the kale salad I love to make. The apple in the salad and the apple-y flavor of the vinegar go very well together. Slowly, I’ve started using it for other purposes. A friend of mine […]
Thoughts on ‘Animals Make Us Human’
No time for a post yesterday–I was reading the last of Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin before heading off to a workshop with her at the University of Washington. This was a very unique opportunity to sit down in a room with no more than a dozen people and engage in a […]
Spiced Cider
I took a short hiatus (2 days) from the blog. Honestly, I’ve not had any ideas for what to post and I didn’t want to just post to post. We’ve been having lots of family time with Eric’s brother (Mike) and his wife (Marianna) and their kids (Ayanna and Alder) and Eric’s mom (Ruth) and […]
Jazz for Cows
Good morning! I woke up this morning and stumbled across this video. I had a student a year or so ago who found out that my dissertation research was focused on dairy and she brought me this vintage postcard she found of cows standing in a circle around an old radio set up on a […]
Thanksgiving Recap
This Thanksgiving was so nice. I got up early yesterday morning and started cooking and had everything prepared to go over to our friends’ (Karen, Jeremy and Oliver) by 12:30. Eric and I actually had time to sit down and watch an episode of Glee and and episode of The Big Bang Theory before we headed […]
Mulled Wine
Yesterday was another crafting day. We were not quite as productive as we had hoped. I think the magnitude of our planned projects was a bit overwhelming. But we did wrap some of the soap we made, cut out a bunch of fabric for the sewing projects we’re doing, and make mulled wine. I would […]
