Life in General Archives


Wish Me Luck for Tonight’s Dinner

We’re having a dinner party tonight and the guests are my husband’s retired sensei and his wife, and a visiting sensei from Japan, and his daughter.
Wish me luck. On the menu: steak (grilled, outside, not by me, thank goodness), salad, roasted carrots with rosemary and Japanese small potatoes in sauce. Cookies and chocolate for [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

I overdid it as usual during the Thanksgiving dinner today. There were a few funny moments - it was my family’s first holiday without my sister Joy, and while it wasn’t as tough and gut-wrenching as I know Christmas will be, it still had its tough spots.
But all in all, it was a good day. [...]