Culinary hints
These days it seems there’s just about no dish that isn’t improved by adding a little onion and mushroom to...
Would you believe?
The find of the week at our wonderful library: DVDs of the first season of “Get Smart,” the brilliant Mel...
Speaking of “fail”
It’s possible I’m going to have to go uptown to meet my man, ’cause I am desperately short of ginger...
College marketing fail
Listen, Little Liberal Arts College, if you even want your sales pitch to reach my exceptionally gifted daughter’s field of...
Wendy
Woke up this morning with the Beach Boys’ understated classic “Wendy” in my head, inexplicably, and a troll in my...
Terra Nova
Growing up on a bicycle and having pretty much free rein, I got to know the streets of my village...
Psychosis
Watching TV with the kids is always an interesting learning experience. They’re both old enough now that we’re past worrying...
Spring! Yeah, right.
The march toward Spring is such a cruel thing around here. We get those delightful warm days when the temperature...
Correction
I feel the need to correct an impression, spread freely by my daughters, the extent of which seems to be...
Perfection
This 1964 video of Dusty Springfield singing on Dutch TV may be the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen. As...