Just before Valentine’s Day, I mentioned that one of my goals this year is to move some of my cookie designs to other formats, like paper and fabric. This bulldog, who you might recognize from my main site’s banner, is the first attempt. He was lovingly replicated using Adobe Illustrator, a not very friendly program, [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I read this very interesting post by David, about Ernest Hemingway’s lost suitcase. The story brought back eerie memories of my first year in graduate school, when I was scheduled to turn in my very first screenplay for review. The professor who led the workshop was really strict about deadlines; [...]
What’s up there? A bird? A comet? Superman?
No, silly. Just some trees.
We recently went skiing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We hadn’t had a real vacation in three and a half years, and when Wolf returned from China, he announced that we were going somewhere whether we wanted to or not. A nice pile of frequent [...]
Around 3 a.m. west coast time, the latest Pacific rainstorm made its initial descent into southern California. The first few drops woke me from a dream which I cannot remember. Those drops went from a little pitter-patter to an all-out pounding storm, and I just couldn’t get back to sleep, nor did I want to. [...]
I was just thinking about the title of this post. What else could I say? Have a rotten Valentine’s Day? It’s one of my favorite days of the year. It’s the anniversary of my first kiss with my husband. It’s the day when men get silly-goofy, especially when they forget to do something, anything, for [...]
I’ve been experimenting with different ways of transferring my cookie designs to other media such as paper and fabric. The process has required me to learn a little more about Photoshop and Illustrator, and the learning curve has been a bit steep. But enlightening, too.
This isn’t the first time I’ve made little tags with photos [...]
A while back a friend asked me to make some Valentine’s Day cookies for a man she was crushing on. We came up with a few funny, flirty and clever phrases to put on each cookie and I added colorful hearts and dots to the background. After getting her approval, I delivered them to the [...]
Who says it doesn’t rain in Southern California? Almost two weeks ago, I was about to fall asleep when the sky exploded and dumped a storm of hail on us. I had totally forgotten what hail sounded like because it’s appearance in these parts is so rare. The storm lasted only a few minutes, and [...]
Did you see this?
“Obama Woos G.O.P. With Attention, and Cookies”
in the NY Times, February 4, 2009 (Read the article here)
As you well know, I’m a Democrat (my late father was a Republican, but that’s another story). I was oh so glad that Mr. Obama was elected our 44th president. But whoa. In an effort to [...]
I have a confession: I fell asleep during the Superbowl. Sorry. All those chunky men in tight pants. Didn’t excite me. Although I did wake up in time to see the Arizona Cardinals make an unbelievable comeback in the fourth quarter. Since I always root for the underdog, I thought, whoa! My guys might win [...]