I watched The Deer Hunter the other day. It's on AFI's top 100 movies list. The first part of the movie takes place in the hometown of a few young men who are about to go off to 'Nam. I felt immediately invested because the setting is a working-class town in western Pennsylvania. And... Continue Reading →
Larz Anderson Auto Museum
I knocked two more things off the birthday list last weekend, when Daisy was visiting. We went to the Larz Anderson Auto Museum and I tried okra for the first time. I've been thinking about visiting the Larz Anderson Auto Museum for years, but hadn't gotten there. I had been to the grounds surrounding the... Continue Reading →
Shaaaaane!
I watched Shane the other night (#45 in AFI's top 100 movies list). It's a western from 1953, and it features a lot of beautiful scenery and a lot of fightin'. The main conflict is between "homesteaders" who've built homes on the open prairie and greedy cattle owners who want all of the land... Continue Reading →
Sake Cocktail, Please
Am anxiously awaiting the season premiere of Downton Abbey: I feel like we Americans have been waiting a loonng time. So #2 on the birthday list is a sake cocktail. My friend Linda had her birthday dinner at a Japanese restaurant last night. I wasn't brave enough... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year
Olive and I wish everyone a happy new year! So I kicked off the birthday list by making cream cheese mints. As I mentioned in a previous post, Grandma Peg would mass-produce mints and my family would give out boxes of them at the holidays. I don't have her... Continue Reading →
