Raising Camelot

I Blame My Mother

neck deep in the quicksand of a website-conversion-slash-blog-migration-slash-shopping-cart-revamp-slash-Lord-knows-what-else-I'm-going-to-find-needs-doing. None of which I would ever have attempted had it not been for my mother. I spent my formative years watching her tackle just about every ... View Post

Champagne Tastes & Beer Realities

in Dwell on 05/23/10

has a talent. As for me, I can walk in to any store in the western hemisphere and with no knowledge of prices, pick out, by the simple virtue of what I honestly like best, The Most Expensive Anything in the entire store. I swear, it isn't intentional. Now you know what a saint I married. As we ... View Post

Chocolate for a Frugal Friday

in Confidential on 05/21/10

gave me a gift box of these Godiva Chocolate Biscuits once. I still haven't recovered. For better or worse, they cost $8.50 a box. If I planned to make them a fixture in my life, I'd be forced to take up a more profitable hobby. Like speculating in the international currency ... View Post

When It All Began

in Confidential on 05/15/10

were very young. Twenty-two and twenty-three, in actual fact. Neither of us wore glasses. I was still paying off a credit card. (Sorry about that...) We were naive enough to think the carpeting of our cheap apartment was damp because it had been steam-cleaned before we moved in. It was still damp ... View Post

Chocolate Chip Brownie Pillows

in Eat on 05/12/10

DISCLAIMER: I am not a "chef." While culinary precision and sophistication are qualities I admire in others, these are not among my gifts. I'm lazy. But I'm a huge fan of comfort food. And by "huge," I mean... never mind. Where my culinary skills tend to shine is in the arena of dessert. To me, ... View Post