Posts under ‘Exasperation’

There’s a reason I’ve stayed a renter all of my adult life. Where other people have a fascination with all things home improvement, I have preferred to leave that sort of thing to a landlord. Fix a faucet? No thank you. Replace a roof? Nuh-uh. Paint a room? Why, when it already has perfectly good [...]

Just need to interrupt the regularly-scheduled programming for a quick note…my hosting company and I are doing some troubleshooting on why some of you fine readers are able to post comments…while others are not. So, unless you’re reading this in a feed reader, you’ll probably note some theme changes over the next 24 hours or [...]

I’m following a story happening in Clayton, a small town in the East Bay here in California: Two sisters (one 11, one 3) have been selling the excess vegetables from their family’s prodigious produce plot in their neighborhood, but a neighbor complained and the city shut them down, leading to a fight that has turned [...]

When I gave up the opportunity to plant a garden (even the balcony variety) at my own apartment, I did not forego all outdoor space. My Oakland apartment building boasts a rooftop deck and an interior courtyard, and although I-880 hugs the building on its opposite side, it is possible to sit outside on one [...]

In the carpool on the way home from work on a sunny and warm Wednesday back in April, my friends Betsy and Dan and I decided to go out for burgers. Snow had crept back in the forecast for early the next week, and we needed some ground beef and some sunshine to make ourselves [...]

Why is it that every year, I speak too soon about the whole end-of-winter business? I mean, seriously. Every year. Only this year, I thought there might be something to it. You know, it being Spring today. And yesterday. And the day before. I stumbled across this quote from a helpful National Weather Service meteorologist [...]

This picture? That’s what’s happening outside my front door right this very minute. I know this winter is going to end eventually, but seriously? It feels like I’m never going to see the garden again.

At BlogHer ’07, I attended a fabulous dinner with a group of other food bloggers, some of whom attended the conference and some of whom live in the area. At the table that night, we got to talking about my particular obsession with Lost. I told my table neighbors about my friend Betsy, who lives [...]

As I noted on Saturday, I did, in fact, make it to the garden fair. And, against many odds, located Prairie Robin as she and meandered in different directions through the central display area, which featured an awful lot of flower societies. There were societies of hosta lovers. Societies of lily lovers. Societies of people [...]

Not that I think all my readers set up a special calendar just to track my comings and goings (And, I might add, if you do, there is something wrong with you and you should get help immediately.) (Why are you still reading? Go get help!), but 50 minutes ago, I was supposed to be [...]