New York (heart)s Cleveland

This Sunday’s New York Times will feature my beloved city in it’s “36 hours in…” series. It’s already posted on their website —  read it!

Try This: Broccoli Chickpea Casserole

Hooray for girlymama gathering vegetarian recipes this month for her “Try This: Spice Up Your Kitchen recipe carnival” (prior to being invited to participate, I had never heard of such a thing). I’m very glad she’s doing it, because even if people make the effort to he herbivores one day per week it will make [...]

Date Night

Conversation snippet from this evening, as we sat at Mama Santa’s drinking Sangria and eating the best pizza in Cleveland:
Me: “Lots of guys would kill for a girl like me!”
CJ: “Yeah, and lots of guys would kill a girl like you.“
Nice to know I’m appreciated.

Teaching on 9/11

Today President Obama eloquently stated that “eight Septembers have come and gone,” and I realized that with those eight Septembers so to have eight graduating classes come and gone. I wasn’t originally going to publish this, but here’s what I wrote when I got home: 
Something occurred to me today as I was sitting at the [...]

Follow-up on President Obama’s speech to students

This article explains perfectly the point I wanted to make, but was too worked up to do so, while on my warped soapbox on Friday. 
I don’t think anyone in my school watched it. It straddled two of our three lunch periods, and I told my students they were welcome to eat lunch in my room [...]

Delightful Tidbits

1.) I was reading the Plain Dealer while eating breakfast this morning, and came across this article. And then I rejoiced.
I know the theory that people who carry more weight in their lower body than upper are less likely to have heart disease has been around for awhile, but this more specific piece of news is [...]

Headline: Impossible-to-Please Feline Annoyed by End of Summer

My cat is very demanding. When she wants something, she bugs me until she gets it (and I almost ALWAYS give it to her).
This morning, she she was meowing her annoyed meow at me (yeah, she has different meows — the “hello” meow, the “I’m about to puke” meow, the “get down here and play [...]

Soapbox.

I usually avoid talking about politics on my blog. I don’t want to get into arguments. But I HAVE to comment briefly on what’s in the news today. I can’t keep my mouth shut about the idiocy going on today. 
Our president wants to talk to young people about taking personal responsibility for their own education. [...]