Last week I hosted ten ladies at my house for the first iteration of our cookbook club. An article from Serious Eats about cookbook clubs was all the rage on social media last fall which inspired me to create this group. We are taking all the good things from a traditional fiction book club, namely […]
Read any good books lately? I’ve been in a bit of a rut the last six weeks and need a list of good ones. My uncle recommended Ken Follett, so I’m currently reading Night Over Water. I’m only 35 pages in, but it seems like it might be a winner. Fingers crossed. The last good […]
I like paper. I like paper thank you notes, paper calendars, paper books, and paper magazines. I like talking about paper. I like feeling quality paper. I even like smelling paper. (Not even Crane personalized stationary can top that freshly printed, new yearbook smell that screams of good memories and a summer just around the corner.) […]
OMG, you guys. If you need a laugh, I highly recommend Aisha Tyler‘s new book, Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation. If you listen to her podcast (you ARE listening to her podcast, right?!), you know that she makes her guests share an embarrassing story of the highest caliber on each show. There have […]
Do you read The Bloggess blog? Because you should. Jenny writes just like I do. Well, like I would if I was a bit more witty and had more interesting stories to tell. I stumbled into her book at the Powell’s Bookstore while we were in Portland. I had heard of the Bloggess, but never […]