In preparation for my Alaska Aurora Borealis trip, the organizers sent a suggested reading list. The only book that I could find at the library was Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer. Into the Wild is a non-fiction account of a young man, Chris McCandless, who travels into and dies in Alaska. McCandless was smart, […]
I’ve now completed 34 recipes from Plenty. I’ve started repeating recipes in my dinner adventures. Barley and roasted pepper salad Rating: 3.5Note: this was supposed to be made with farro butI made it with Barley instead. Zucchini and hazelnut salad Rating: 2Note: Didn’t have a ridged griddle panto make cool grill marks on the zucchini
Son announced last week that he was changing his keyboard to Dvorak layout rather than keep it QWERTY. He said that he never felt confident with QWERTY even after years of games, drills, and usage. He was unhappy that he couldn’t touch type and didn’t get any better with practice. Dvorak layout uses less finger
Based on the Young Adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural love story much in the vein of Twilight but with witches rather than vampires. Set in the deep south, where civil war re-enactments are the highlight of life, the soon to be witch Lena moves to town and
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow was this month’s book club choice. A main topic centered around race, mix-ed race children, the rights and dignity of mixed-race people. Since this was also a central topic in the previous book Island beneath the Sea, I thought it an interesting coincidence. This
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