Posted in At Home on Apr 28th, 2009
Buds on the trees and a different coloured poppy everyday. It’s true. I planted. I bought some $2.00 plants at home depot, dug a few holes, carefully opened the roots, plopped them in the holes and ta-da. Then it rained, and instead of being grumpy, I thought about how convenient it was to have a [...]
Earth day…like as opposed to Seceratary’s Day or Mother’s Day? I have to admit, I am not the biggest fan of ”days.” Holidays are one thing but random days that hardly anybody knows about until it’s all over CNN as you sit there with your morning coffee feeling like crap because it’s not fair trade just seems a little easy. Especially [...]
Posted in At Home, Champagne Wednesdays, Restaurant Reviews, Vancouver on Apr 20th, 2009
Hope you all had a nice weekend! Ever since Friday, when Ash and I served homemade Coq au Vin to our wonderful friends, I have been on a recipe rampage. Tonight I’m making Chana Punjabi with the spice kit my mother bought Ash from Vij’s Rangoli. I found the recipe on the blog, The Wednesday Chef, who writes: “I have been [...]
Posted in At Home, I heart coffee, Vancouver, writing on Apr 17th, 2009
Specifically, this treehouse, perched on the rocks of Passage Island. This amazing place is just a 5 minute water-taxi from Fisherman’s Cove, West Vancouver. It’s listed for $399,000 – why does that seem like such a deal? 100% self-sufficient…solar panels….generators… views to kill for… How good would a latte and a book be in this very spot? Grey clouds have dropped [...]
Posted in At Home, Restaurant Reviews, Shopping, Vancouver, writing on Mar 26th, 2009
Perfect spot for blog strategizing with beer: Post Restaurant & Lounge, Seattle. Patricia Gray, I am so glad you are from Vancouver. I am also glad you told me about these. Spring picnics anyone? And this snippet, from the poem Marginalia by Billy Collins and found on the blog Wide Open Spaces. It made laugh heartedly: [...]
Posted in At Home, Restaurant Reviews, Shopping, Vancouver, wedding on Mar 26th, 2009
I am one of those lucky women who can say they married well. Very well. Look how he saved me from falling over this steep and unruly cliff. Ok, maybe he didn’t save my life, but he made my life. Even better. Today’s proof: a smorgasaboard of muffins delivered to my office (in-person) from [...]
Posted in At Home on Mar 25th, 2009
As I clumsily move forward into the skin of a new last name, I am reminded of the formative powers of my first one. From the Jen11 show: More than a million of us were dubbed Jennifer within the span of just fifteen years. From a place of relative obscurity, the name grew on a wave [...]
Posted in At Home, Champagne Wednesdays, writing on Mar 12th, 2009
I’ve been reading a lovely book titled ”Cultivating Delight” by Diane Ackerman for the past week or so. It’s the kind of book you wade through with your pants tucked into your boots. A wild, hairy field of fact and latin names and rich descriptions you must pick over once or twice before ingesting. It’s far less depressing [...]
Posted in At Home, Champagne Wednesdays, Vancouver, writing on Feb 25th, 2009
Between budget restraints and being a bit under-the-weather, Ash and I haven’t had much champagne to report of lately. Not that I’m complaining. It would just be nice to have a little bubble-powered story to tell you. Sometimes when I’m too sleepy or distracted to think of new things to say, I roam around trying [...]
Posted in At Home on Feb 21st, 2009
Considering selling our apartment or making it look like this.
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