never listen to your sister

My sisters came up with this great (read: crazy ridiculous) idea to make these pom-pom flower decorations for a party my middle sister was hosting.   My oldest sister made these this year for her daughters’ room and swore they were incredibly easy to do. “Oh, they’re so cute,” she said. “Oh, they’re so easy,” she said. Blah. Blah. Blah. Never trust a party planner when … Continue reading never listen to your sister

death food

My mom likes clippings. She likes to gather little newspaper articles and magazine factoids and all sorts of little literary goodness, divide them into piles, and then send them out to her daughters. I get a lot of cartoons. They’re on my level. One article, however, was on last meals. The author was from the south, and he described with alarming alacrity what he would … Continue reading death food