My Better Half has many sterling qualities that are admirable and serious. But one of the most continuously endearing is his baby oranguntan hair in the morning. Every time I see it, I get melty all over again. What silly thing makes you fall in love all over again?
Happy Love Thursday. You can find other [...]
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… or y’all, for my southern readers. What you see above is one of my favorite places—at my computer, with you, emailing with you, IMing with you, writing for you, reading your posts and comments, drinking my tea and enjoying the pleasure of your company.
When I started this blog, it was as a woman thrashing, [...]
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, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
I love tulips. I love spring. More encompassing, however, I love color– riotous color, that isn’t prissy, restrained, or proper. I’ve spent so much of my life in periods of depression that were charcoal grey, sooty, greasy, heavy, light-obscuring. Color is a jolt to my system, a [...]
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I love to cook– and my waistline makes no secret of it. But I don’t care so much about my waistline that food still doesn’t (and always) come first. I try to plan a few meals a week for cooking, and for working on my stack of recipe clippings.
But… shhhh… I get tired [...]
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Teaching, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
Every year, schedule permitting, I judge the same mock trials in which I took part as a civil clinic student at Boston University School of Law. I learned more about lawyering and human nature in that year-long class than in any other course I took in law school. In many [...]
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Putting back into one’s self, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
One of my favorite authors, Robin McKinley, writes of one of her characters in one of her books that she needed rest, because she gave too freely of herself– she needed time “putting back into her self.” While that particular character turns out to [...]
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I love looking up at architectural details. I love the details themselves– the different styles and eras, the different materials, shapes, sizes, choices. I love that the act of looking up, away from the path you’re taking, lets you see something unexpected, that can make you stop. But most importantly, I love the aesthetic, which [...]
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Old friends.
There’s nothing quite like them. I do love a new book, at the kitchen table, on the sofa, in my bag for on the train, in line, at lunch. But sometimes, what I need is my dog-eared, water-marked from tub reading old friends– the kind of old friends you buy backup copies [...]
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Posted in Better Half, Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, cooking, flickr, food, friends, good things, links, photos on February 21, 2008 | 18 Comments »
The aim of all my cooking, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
I have, at various times, been more than a little emotionally repressed. Except when I cook– never then. Every time I get out the pots and pans, every time I pick up the knife, it’s meant as an expression of love. [...]
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One perfect rose, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
I’ve been meaning to hop on the Shutter Sisters bandwagon and join in Love Thursday– what better day to start than Valentine’s Day?
This rose grew on a rosebush down the street from our house. From May to November, this bush throws out one perfect rose, one [...]
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