Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Christmas Cookie Exchange

About this time every year, my sister begins to feverishly bake Christmas cookie after Christmas cookie. There are the old standards she makes every year – but she also hunts up a few new recipes each year to try out.
And a few years ago she started holding cookie parties to share the joy & load of [...]

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Tonsurephobia

While I’m not really phobic about it, the prospect of finding a new hairdresser does fill me with dread.
Because it just doesn’t take much to screw-up naturally curly hair…turning beautiful long spiral locks into a 30-something Shirley Temple.
I usually have pretty good luck if I can find a hairdresser who shares my predicament…but the chances of [...]

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

A Rock’s Lament

Not every woman is a flower.

Some are rocks and trees and rivers and mountains.

But that doesn’t stop a rock…

…from wishing it was a flower.
[pictures from Silleuksa Temple back in September]