food | another damn life

a wednesday in four parts

Posted by lyn | Jan 31, 2014 | true story | 11

Wednesday, part one My inner circle encompasses two people with back-to-back birthdays, one on the...

3 months without a kitchen: how we ate

Posted by lyn | Nov 8, 2013 | everyday life | 8

Okay, let me just say straight away that that’s a misleading title. We did, in fact, have...

kitchentawk

Posted by lyn | May 3, 2012 | everyday life | 8

Having been a child raised on packets of Hamburger Helper, boxes of Jiffy muffins, and canned green beans, it took a long time to be exposed to foods in their… you know… natural states. It wasn’t until I...

antisocial tendencies, revisited

Posted by lyn | Apr 18, 2012 | rant | 12

So, I’ve never republished a post of mine before, but special circumstances warrant it this time. Namely, a special kind of insanity brought on by: This last-minute planning for a bachelorette party in Las Vegas this...

live to serve

Posted by lyn | Jan 30, 2012 | jokes | 33

I had this problem where I felt like writing a blog post but I couldn’t figure out what to...

interest due

Posted by lyn | Jan 5, 2012 | rant | 20

I gotta be honest, I dread reading blogs this time of year. Hell, I dread reading anything this...

shamelessness

Posted by lyn | Nov 14, 2011 | musings | 31

You know what sucks? Waking up in the middle of the night from a dream in which Santa Claus is making you cry. MOVING ON, THEN. As usual I’m a mite gut-wrenched about this post because it is just so casual and personal,...

in the aeroplane over the sea

Posted by lyn | Apr 25, 2011 | true story | 12

When I booked my tickets to Detroit, the email confirmation read “Republic Airlines on behalf of United.” This made me frown slightly, for Republic is not among the airlines at my tiny Santa Barbara regional airport, nevermind...

firsts

Posted by lyn | Jan 25, 2011 | favorites, true story | 8

I was on my seventh circuit around the kitchen table. Past the rotary telephone mounted on the...

holiday traditions (guest post)

Posted by lyn | Dec 20, 2010 | true story | 0

I originally wrote this as a guest post for Lizzie and Isiah’s wonderful blog titled Love...

in which we learned nothing

Posted by lyn | Dec 15, 2010 | true story | 7

Today there was an office holiday luncheon downstairs in the break room. For thirty minutes, I stayed upstairs at my desk, ignoring it. I knew exactly what was going to be spread out on those folding tables without even looking,...

in which my antisocial tendencies surface

Posted by lyn | Nov 30, 2010 | rant | 16

If only I had me a sharp knife. If only I had me a sharp knife, I wouldn’t have to go downstairs to the main kitchen at work to prep my food. Slicing tomatos, apples, avocados, rinsing lettuce — all that could be...

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