July 13, 2021
top ten questioning titles
posted by soe 1:26 am
We’re back to considering punctuated books for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl. Here are ten titles with question marks in them on my to-be read list:
- Is Every One Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
- What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour through New Jersey by Joe Vallese
- Are You Ready to Hatch an Unusual Chicken? by Kelly Jones
- Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
- Oh There You Are I Can’t See You Is It Raining? by Laura Broadbent
- Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth
- Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
- Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne
- What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Do you have any interrogatory reads I should add to my list?
July 12, 2021
sunday market basket
posted by soe 1:27 am
I’m feeling lazy and tired, so I thought I’d share what found its way into my market basket at the farmers market today:
- Milk and yogurt
- Granola
- Lemon pound cake
- Blueberries, queen Anne cherries, and currants
- Plums, peaches, nectarines, and peaches
- Corn on the cob
- Lettuce
- Summer squash
- Yu choy (an Asian green for stir-frying)
- A yellow heirloom tomato
- Three tiny cabbages (savoy, red, and pointed) — Rudi had an amazing key lime slaw at the brewery last night and I wanted to see if he could recreate it
What kind of produce is in season in your area right now?
July 11, 2021
a day at the beach
posted by soe 1:03 am
It was a perfect day to spend at the beach. The air and water were both in the 70s. It was sunny, with very little breeze. There were enough waves to make the water fun, but not enough undertow to make it feel fraught.
The beach was already packed when we arrived, but folks start to disappear in the late afternoon. We discovered they were all hanging out on the boardwalk when we went up to buy our ice cream cones just as the sun was setting.
We found a new-to-us brewpub up the shore in Lewes. Rudi enjoyed a flight of beers, including a sour beer flavored with piña colada, and I had a fantastic grilled cheese with peach preserves. There were other things we wanted to try on the menu, so we’ll definitely be back.
July 10, 2021
beachy keen
posted by soe 1:40 am
It’s been another rough workweek, so Rudi asked if I wanted to spend tomorrow at the beach.
Um, YES!
I’ll see you on the other side of sea, surf, and sun!
July 9, 2021
back in business, dry and fast, and cheerleading
posted by soe 1:49 am
Three beautiful things from my past week:
1. The Bier Baron (formerly the Brickskeller, for those of you with a historic familiarity with D.C.) has reopened. It joins the Fireplace as the most local bars that shuttered completely during the pandemic to resume service in the past month. While I once would have been irritated to walk through the clouds of tobacco and pot smoke outside them both, at this point I greet their crowds like old friends (in my head).
2. My volleyball teammate, Katie, gave me a ride home after our game in rather plothering weather. As I’d biked down and had planned to metro home and I was soaked to the skin, it was a remarkably generous offer. And I was home in half the time either of the other modes of transit would have allowed.
3. A colleague offers me kind words when I need them most this week.
How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?
July 8, 2021
fell asleep
posted by soe 4:43 am
Apparently I thought I could knit with my eyes closed, because I fell asleep. Now I’m going to finish sleeping in my bed rather than writing you a better post.