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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Rice Pudding
Trader Joe’s Rice Pudding Tastes Like: Not too sweet, not too liquid, pleasantly chunky and delicious rice pudding! Great With: Lychees on top, a side of ice cream, and some English muffin to dip in it. Perfect For: Dessert that fools you into thinking it’s healthier than it actually is? Must Know: Labelled “gluten free”…
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To The Infant I Couldn't Stop Staring At In The Laundromat
hi, little guy. I hope I didn’t creep you out by staring at you in your impossibly tiny sweatsuit. I doubt if you even noticed – your eyes wide and flicking all over the room, pausing on each new amazing sight to process and file it away. everything is new and nothing is taken for…
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Things I Love Thursday – Fall Edition
Autumn is my favourite season and I’m feeling especially amorous towards many things lately… 1. the color Orange: I have been seen wearing a Bumper Bowling Buddies t-shirt around town that I got as participation for a bowling league I was in…when I was six. it still fits! orange is also the colour of pumpkins,…
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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Dried Flattened Banana
Trader Joe’s Dried Flattened Banana Tastes Like: Banana-bread-flavored Fruit Roll Ups. Great With: a pinch of salt and a dash of cinnamon makes these puppies REALLY sing, but they’re great on their own too! Perfect For: an unexpected addition to a sandwich, vegan fruity “lox” on a bagel, sushi or dessert sushi Must Know: can…
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#tbt Everybody’s Doin’ It
Back when I was in first or second grade, I begged my parents to let me pierce my ears. All my friends were showing up at school with dainty, sparkly studs, and I wanted to be just as grown-up as they were! My parents’ answer was an emphatic NO. “You’re too young,” was the reasoning.…
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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Crispy Crunchy Jackfruit Chips
Trader Joe’s Crispy Crunchy Jackfruit Chips Tastes Like: Very thick banana-and-passion-fruit-flavored Fritos. Great With: I have to be honest, my boyfriend and I tried dipping these in almost everything in my fridge. These are totally the loner of the dried fruit aisle: I had a hard time finding complements for them! Even Greek Yogurt did…
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Time Enough For Love
There are some Heinlein books that are speedy, breezy adventures. Others will take over your life, seep into your soul, refuse to let go, wrong you out like a sponge and then sop you full of brilliance. Time Enough for Love may be the epitome of such a novel. Confession: I think I went about…
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The Kindness of Strangers
As he stepped up to the cash register I stood behind, he hooked the cane he had used to make his way to me slowly over his forearm. He was strikingly handsome, for a man easily more than double my age. His face hung from high cheekbones, pure white hair neatly swooped to one side…
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#tbt Dance, Dance
This photo is from late August 2007 and the real beginning of my adult life and as such, I am in a toy store. playing DDR. and falling in love with New York City. a year later, I would move to the Big Apple – September 8th, 2008, and from then my life would never…
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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Apple Carrot Crushers
Trader Joe’s Apple Carrot Crushers Tastes Like: Pumpkin spice applesauce. Sweet and slightly savory, with a definite “vegetable healthy yum” undertone! Great With: Greek yogurt…or just by itself as a snack alongside some Chai tea or gluten-free ginger snaps! Perfect For: A midnight snack, or really, snack on the go. throw in a locker or purse…
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Have Space Suit – Will Travel
Robert A. Heinlein has two modes: one is for long, drawn out emotional epics that will never leave you filled with characters who feel as close as family. But never forget that he also writes fast, fun stories like Have Space Suit -Will Travel. Meet Kip Russel, starry eyed – or should I say, MOONy…
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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Coconut Strips
Trader Joe’s Coconut Strips Tastes Like: Coconut gummy candy, coconut jerky, everything that is good in the world. they remind me of chewy macaroons. THEY’RE ADDICTIVE. Great With: yogurt at breakfast time, tea at bedtime. These would make a great “leave in your drawer at work” snack but they won’t last long. they are AMAZING.…
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Currently… in September 2014
FEELING: I’m going to let my feet answer this one: THEY HURT! Work has been keeping me hopping from one job to the next and I’m soaking my feet and taping the band-aids on but it feels like I’m stepping on shards of glass everywhere I go! WATCHING: absolutely nothing at the moment! As I…
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#tbt The Least-Super Model
My mother sent this article to me, clipped from a local magazine. The year is 2006, and despite a deep-seated self-loathing that the photograph conveys, I have volunteered myself to model for a local photo-feature. Does this image not make you cringe? The forced, uncomfortable smile barely peeking through a wall of hair, one arm…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Tea Tree Oil
Trader Joe’s Tea Tree Oil Tastes Like: Not for eating! This is a beauty product! I will tell you that it smells minty fresh and feels like tingles. Great With: I know it says not to, but I use this occasionally as a toner when I feel like my skin could use it. I know,…
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Flashforward
Last week, I spoke about my disappointment with Jurassic Park, and how I felt the movie was better. In a dramatic turn of events, this week I review the novel Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer, which was the inspiration for a one-season TV drama on ABC several years ago. SPOILER ALERT: THIS BOOK IS BETTER!…
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Does Not Compute
well, it’s happened again. last summer, my laptop was reduced to a useless piece of machinery by lack of a charge cord. earlier this week, almost a year to the day later, it simply refused to turn on. I hve to wonder if the “robots” in my life just know what’s best for me and…
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#tbt A Tale of Two Robots
On January 19th, 2012, I took this photo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Pay CLOSE ATTENTION the goofy little robots in the bottom, holding up the carnation? I loved this photo and the robots and the flower SO MUCH that I made that photo my lock screen photo for the past, like, two and a half YEARS.…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Fruit Wraps
Trader Joe’s Fruit Wraps Tastes Like: Extra-thick fruit roll-ups. Or very gummy fruit leather. The texture is odd, but not displeasing. Great With: your evening glass of cranberry juice…or anything else, really. Perfect For: Children? A quick nosh? A sweet exit to a healthy lunch? Must Know: They are “organic,” for what it’s worth! Costs: …
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Jurassic Park
I picked up Jurassic Park in the beginning of the summer, expecting it to be a fast-paced, quick summer read. Your typical “beach/airplane” book. I carried it with me all over town and perhaps the most amusing anecdote I can tell you is that when I was reading it in Chelsea Market, a guy who…