animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

this is where i leave you

This movie had a couple of my favorite actors in it (Jason Bateman and Tina Fey), so I was expecting a little more from it, but I still found it to be rather entertaining. The story was about four adult siblings who sit shiva in their childhood home after their …

bifocal

Now seeing twice as good. I’ve been putting it off, but I couldn’t put it off another year, so I got bifocals today. I got progressive lenses, so you can’t tell they are bifocals unless I tell you, which I just did. So, beyond the four people who read my …

birthdayx4

I don’t know how Brian lucks out. We just had his 4th birthday celebration this evening. He wanted the two of us to make spinach lasagna (complete with homemade noodles) for supper, so that’s what we did. His first celebration was dinner at my parents’ last month; the second was …

the collector

This was another good story recommended to me by Brian. I read most of it while we were away the other weekend. The plot was about a man who becomes obsessed with a woman and subsequently kidnaps her. The first part of the book was from the man’s point of …