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Resuming a good old habit
When my daughter was small, her dad and I baked all our own bread. We were a bit on the sanctimonious, vegetarian, natural ingredients, unprocessed, home-cooked food bandwagon. We probably irritated some of our friends. I know we got on the nerves of some of our family! Our main cookbooks, for many years were Mollie Katzen’s…
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Thinking about death…
…and other important things. I am running out of time to listen to all the things I have on my smartphone. Podcasts, music, audiobooks…and then there’s live radio, which is often gripping. With all these options, it’s hard to choose what to listen to. This morning, on my way in to work, I decided, among…
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Too many emails…
I’ve been hitting the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of many of the emails I receive. A lot. It’s thanks, in part, to Google’s new(ish) mail interface, Inbox, which sorts your incoming emails into “Promotional”, “Updates”, and “Purchases”. It’s pretty cool. And it’s highlighted for me how much junk I get. It’s not spam, I…
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The healing power of books
There’s no question that a good book transports the reader, and can uplift one’s mood, or leave one devastated. Such a lovely idea, then, to set up a bookseller as a literary apothecary, with the insight and knowledge to know precisely which books would heal the ills of customers strolling in among the shelves. And,…
