Thou Shall Bring Cake
September 2008 For years now, I have lamented my musical memory. I have a hard enough time keeping band names in my head but associating them to randomly playing songs? …
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November 28, 2010
Plum Crazy Cake
September 2008 Gravity had been pulling me into friendships with boys. I say “boys” in keeping with my older sister's claim: males are not “men” until age thirty-six. It follows…
November 27, 2010
The Quelcadelphia Bank
September 2008 With social media tools such as Facebook, the concept of the yearbook will probably, if not already, become one of those relic references of the generations who will…
November 27, 2010
Crockpot Luck
September 2008 When Mitch and Gloria invited me to their Crock Pot Luck, I mentally brainstormed some potluck dishes to bring, but I concluded that such a clever party theme…
November 27, 2010
Eat Your Veggies
August 2008 Quelcy, Quelcy, quite, quite merry, How does your garden grow? With gourds and greens and buttery smells, And judgmental nieces all in a row! I left Paris early…
November 27, 2010
Eat Your Milk, Drink Your Cake
August 2008 Shannon Kulp (left) and I (right) were born on the same day, just one month apart, and we were immediate playmates once my family moved to the neighborhood. …
November 26, 2010
La Tarte Eiffel
June 2008 I replaced a nineteen-year-old New Zealander in Le Perreux Sur-Marne. She told me she was simultaneously ready to go and in disbelief she would be leaving. I understood. She…
November 26, 2010
Fondant au Suffocation a la Menthe
June 2008 It had to happen at some point during my Parisian au pair stint...un français et moi, a Frenchie and me! Despite my mantras of, "I'm independent here….I'm not looking…
November 26, 2010