A Celebration of Mundanity

I have made the most perfect creme brulee, which also happens to be one of Mark's favorite desserts. Even lacking a vanilla bean and substituting with a little vanilla sugar, with the bits of vanilla…

Smiling because I would do the exact same thing... Mark's foot, in both hemispheres, standing on the Prime Meridian:

Mark is in London and has started to post photos: Mark will return on the 31st, but he'll have most of the week to himself to explore neighborhoods around the surrounding area of High Wycombe that we…

I am a fan of dinner salads in the summer. Something cool and light and also something that doesn't require a lot of work to put together. Without a recipe to follow, I was inspired by a dinner salad…

Off and on, I have claimed genealogy a hobby. Usually I have these phases of interest which wax and wane. When researching into my mother's mothers' family, I would run into stumbling blocks which…

I joined the Y in Penn Hills. The best kept secret of Penn Hills apparently with it's super clean brand spanking new center and equipment. My goal is to go each day. Some say it takes a month of…

Today my being just over thirty one years old, or approximately today, as I haven't accounted for leap years or leap seconds, I am one billion seconds old! Woot!

Mark and I joined our friend George on an over night backpacking and hiking trip in the Allegheny National Forest. We set out for the Tracey Ridge Trail System, in the northern-most part of the…

I just brought Greenbean back from the vet from what was a particularly traumatic visit, both for her and me, but more so for me. She needed a blood sample drawn, for a rabies serum titer test to be…

Many moons ago, almost two years worth, I blow torched and peeled and scraped and sanded paint off of our front door. I had it in my crazy head that I could finish this process to the level of detail…