Sprouting wings

The countdown is on and I have SOOOO much to do before we fly back home on Saturday. Beyond excited! Slade googled the path that we’re hoping to travel within the 8 days … 1000 km and counting. Egads! Trying to fit in birth celebrations, family reunions, long-lost friends and a wedding is tight … someone…

crazy about Sushi

Ever since slaDE and I attended the Thai cooking class last month at the downtown food Coop, we have waited in luscious anticipation for this evening. The thought of a class that served up the delectable appeal of Sushi was too much to bear for our empty anxious stomaches. After a chilly bike ride in…

Quinoa and Ed

Whenever I include quinoa in a meal, I think of my dear friend Eduardo … Ed has been a forever friend (or so it seems) and he is one of the best cooks that I have been blessed by with many of his home-cooked delectable organic meals. In fact, Ed was the first to introduce…

The Secret

The secret to flying is to trip but miss the ground. — Douglas Adams Let’s see, how many times have I managed to accomplish this feat of tripping ‘gracefully’?? Without hurting myself, I’d say 1245 times, but who’s counting? :). This morning slaDE is catching up on his logbook, and in the process of stimulating…

How do you adapt??

I’ll never forget that feeling, that sense of abrupt arrival, feeling like a stranger touching down into an alien world, or as certain secular interests might profess, a ‘civilized’ society. After returning home from both India and Guatemala (separate trips, disconnected entities), every move I made at first seemed like that from a slow-motion movie…

Oh happy day!

I am such a happy happy gurl today … At work, I finally had the program installed on my computer that I’ve been waiting a month for. The new Adobe Photoshop CS3. Yipppppeeeeee! It’s really quite cool. PS CS3 has some rather wonderful and useful shortcuts that the other versions don’t have. I actually had…