I have come to an important fashion verdict in my late twenties. It is only a good idea to wear trendy high heeled shoes if, and only if, you have every last scrap of yourself together. If you think flashy shoes are going to serve as a distractor from the sloppy squalor of the duck […]
Category: Cookies
Pumpkin Spice Maple Oatmeal Raisin Colon Cookies
So I was scrubbed in on a colon operation the other day, and the senior resident had been teasing me for bringing my sourdough starter with me to Florida for my surgery rotation. No one understands how important fresh bread is to my sense of well-being. The attending colo-rectal surgeon, who is a lovely, soft-spoken […]
Whole-Wheat Cookie Cake
Happy Birthday Jude! My adorable godson turns two, and I am thrilled to be here in North Carolina to watch him live out his two-year-old quirks—like eating orange quarters and then lining the defruited rinds end to end like train cars or hiding puzzle pieces under the living room rug. He is a human echo […]
Cardamom Cookies
Aside from losing my driver’s license and not realizing it until I was three people from the TSA agent at the airport, having delays on each plane and shuttle I endeavored to board, missing my train to stay with the friend who would have me in Ipswich meaning instead of seeing her I paid over […]