Dear Dinner Chicken,
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you. For you. For all that you do for me. Please bear with me as I attempt to count the ways I do love thee.
I love you for coming into my home almost fully defrosted, allowing me to spend only a few minutes washing and drying you, and then another [...]
At least, not anywhere outside the crazy funny world inside my son’s head.
One day, while I wasn’t looking, my son Tim took over the little scratch notebook where I write all things and ideas food-related. And on the same page where I was writing down some titles of recipes I wanted to try, he proceeded to fill just about every [...]
Alternate post title: “Why I couldn’t finish my salad this evening”
I’m home alone tonight because first, someone had the audacity to high-tail it to a Caribbean island and bask in the tropical sun without me. Second, the ensemble that our son is a part of is performing tonight with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Everyone’s got big and important things [...]
One of my quirks is that I always lean towards symmetry. I like to straighten things and make them equidistant to each other. I like things perfectly parallel, or perpendicular to each other. If I have to, I’ll settle for 45 degree angles. Maybe 30 or 60 in a pinch.
I’m also most likely to be that annoying person who, in [...]
I know I’ve been quiet lately, but I promise it’s been for good reason. Boring reason, but good reason nevertheless. (Taxes are boring, yes?)
If it’s any consolation to you, I haven’t been anywhere near a beach. I haven’t even been anywhere near any photos of any beach. I’ve been home, doing the aforementioned boring but necessary things. And in my [...]
We interrupt this vacation narrative to bring you a video you absolutely must see. A friend brought it to my attention, and I’m sending him my Kleenex bill.
Please take a seat. This’ll choke you up too.
Finish strong, my friends. Finish strong.
Most especially this Friday.
Ray’s World Cafe session with David Dye will air this Friday, December 12th on NPR stations across the country. Go to npr.org to view a local station and time it will air. You can also stream the show online at xpn.org on Friday at 2PM EST.
When there’s nothing much you can do in bed except browse the iTunes store and YouTube on your iPod, eventually you’ll come up with some interesting finds.
I really enjoyed discovering these artists. Not much background to give yet on them, though. It’s a pain to research on such a tiny screen. Maybe if you ask nicely, Music Maven might help [...]
From the official Ray LaMontagne site:
RAY LAMONTAGNE TO RELEASE THIRD ALBUM,
‘GOSSIP IN THE GRAIN’ ON SEPTEMBER 9TH
Lauded singer/songwriter, Ray LaMontagne is set to release his much-anticipated third album, Gossip In The Grain, on September 9th on RCA Records. Recorded with returning producer, Ethan Johns in Box, England, and touching upon a range of styles and musical settings- spanning pastoral folk, [...]
