things are changing. everything is growing.
December 1, 2012
November 8, 2012
October 7, 2012
September 20, 2012
August 31, 2012
August 27, 2012
August 12, 2012
wrinkles
Yesterday Lev and I went downtown. As we were walking up Wabash, roughly 15 girls came out of a building and made their way into a nearby school bus. They looked very young--I thought that they couldn't be out of high school. As they walked past us I saw that they were all wearing Roosevelt University sweatshirts. I remarked to Lev how very young they looked, and without missing a beat he replied, "Yeah, we're old."
Every day I look at myself in the mirror. I haven't really noticed any great changes since I was 20. Lev observed that you only think you look as old as you feel, and really, I feel the same as I did when I was in college. Maybe that is why seeing those girls gave me a start--they looked younger than me or anybody I hang out with.
I'm not in college anymore, and it's been nearly ten years since I was. Lev is going through school now--as a rule, he is the oldest person in all of his classes. To him, college is a job, and he approaches it with solemnity. To me, college was this awesome liberal arts period of my life where I experimented with and learned about literature and theorists and painting and friends, and yes, I was very in-my-early-20s about it.
I'm now married, I have a clean apartment, and I do the laundry regularly. I don't see the sun come up while biking home from a party. I guess that puts me in the "adult" category. Last month we officially decided to wait until Lev was done with school to have a baby. I wonder if having a baby will do the trick and make me finally see myself as an adult--because right now, I still feel like my mother's child.
Every day I look at myself in the mirror. I haven't really noticed any great changes since I was 20. Lev observed that you only think you look as old as you feel, and really, I feel the same as I did when I was in college. Maybe that is why seeing those girls gave me a start--they looked younger than me or anybody I hang out with.
I'm not in college anymore, and it's been nearly ten years since I was. Lev is going through school now--as a rule, he is the oldest person in all of his classes. To him, college is a job, and he approaches it with solemnity. To me, college was this awesome liberal arts period of my life where I experimented with and learned about literature and theorists and painting and friends, and yes, I was very in-my-early-20s about it.
I'm now married, I have a clean apartment, and I do the laundry regularly. I don't see the sun come up while biking home from a party. I guess that puts me in the "adult" category. Last month we officially decided to wait until Lev was done with school to have a baby. I wonder if having a baby will do the trick and make me finally see myself as an adult--because right now, I still feel like my mother's child.
July 5, 2012
May 26, 2012
May 24, 2012
May 17, 2012
May 11, 2012
May 10, 2012
yay!
I was offered a manuscript editor position at a Chicago-based medical journal and today I accepted! Yay!
May 8, 2012
April 20, 2012
March 31, 2012
March 25, 2012
oh lovely
The cherry blossoms are blooming in Chicago. It is March. Let me repeat that, because I didn't quite believe it the first time I wrote it: the cherry blossoms are blooming in Chicago in March. And the trees outside our front windows are turning green and I am so happy that the weather heard me back in February when I said, "You know what? I think I would like to have only one more month of this city in the cold and gray. Okay?"
March 22, 2012
March 20, 2012
Spring at last
We are enjoying eighty-degree weather here in Chicago and have been doing so for the past week. Levy and I were out walking yesterday and we noticed that the trees recently began blooming and blossoming. Sometimes living in the Midwest isn't so bad. (But most of the time we miss the beauty and surroundings of our old coastal lives.)
March 19, 2012
March 14, 2012
relaxation nation
March 13, 2012
Housey stuff
Something really important happened this weekend!
And what follows is a picture of a cabinet that seriously took a year for us to make up our minds on. But it's beautiful and Lev and I are glad we finally took the plunge!
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| This reminds me of when you are taking a picture of a dog and it sniffs the lens. |
March 9, 2012
marching
I just read some of my posts from last year and they filled me with hope and happiness. At this time last year I was looking forward to starting the job that I now have (and love); we were three weeks and three days away from finding our lovely apartment of which I probably post too many photos; and we weren't even married yet! Strange. I feel like my life has been like this forever, but a lot can happen in just one year.
Levy is turning 34 on Saturday. I think I may have outdone myself. Not to reveal too much, but let's just say that his two main interests should be satiated come tomorrow. I also just got back from picking up his ceremonial lemon-with-strawberry-filling cake at the bakery. I have to say, the script on the cake is much better this year than it was last year. Cake pictures to come.
In the mean time (and speaking of posting too many photos of our apartment), check out the incredibly radical rug that we just got! Those are lions!
Levy is turning 34 on Saturday. I think I may have outdone myself. Not to reveal too much, but let's just say that his two main interests should be satiated come tomorrow. I also just got back from picking up his ceremonial lemon-with-strawberry-filling cake at the bakery. I have to say, the script on the cake is much better this year than it was last year. Cake pictures to come.
In the mean time (and speaking of posting too many photos of our apartment), check out the incredibly radical rug that we just got! Those are lions!
February 13, 2012
this weekend
So much happened this weekend. So much! It was my 32nd birthday--I can no longer die young, but I am OK with that--and Lev found for me a vegan birthday cake! Which was delicious. And I watched an enlightening documentary about the toxicity levels of plastic, which caused me to have a complete panic attack. After I calmed down, I did some research on bisphenol-A (BPA) and subsequently threw away all of our plastic food storage containers in favor of BPA-free glass containers. But that is all that I am going to write on the subject because this isn't "that" kind of blog. However, I strongly encourage you to do some research into the toxicity of plastic and BPA in particular.
So now I'm 32. I'm 32! What is going to happen this year? Thirty-one was a great year and I really hope that I can top it. xoxo.
So now I'm 32. I'm 32! What is going to happen this year? Thirty-one was a great year and I really hope that I can top it. xoxo.
February 7, 2012
lucky sevens
Today Lev and I have been married for exactly six months. It feels like longer, in a great way. I couldn't imagine our life being any different than it is now: fantastic!
February 3, 2012
Old stuff
I took this in early fall and it has been languishing in my "to-publish" file. These are organic, heirloom potatoes...Can you believe these colors? It could be candy.
January 31, 2012
Attention vegan peanut butter cookie monsters!
OMG I made some really good vegan--yes, vegan--peanut butter cookies. I've actually had pretty good luck with vegan cookies as of late. The Internet is a magical thing; when I was a vegan in the 90s, I had to rely on so-so recipes from dubious cookbooks. Most cookie recipes that I would encounter were pretty bad--too much oil, fell apart, too much baking soda, and tasted (in the words of an old friend) "vegan wrong!"
*But* I did a brief google search before baking...and it paid off! This recipe totally rules.
Preheat the oven to 350. I added a 1/2 cup of flour the second time I made these (which I've incorporated in the recipe, below) to prevent them from getting too sticky at the dough stage.
2.5 cups whole wheat pastry flour, spelt flour, or unbleached all-purpose flour (I recommend using half whole wheat, half all-purpose)
1 teaspoon baking soda
¾ teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup natural peanut butter (either smooth or chunky)
2/3 cup pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons agave syrup
1/3 cup oil (I used canola)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Mix the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients separately. Once thoroughly mixed, add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until the flour disappears. I use my electric stand mixer but you could do this by hand.
Using a tablespoon, drop these onto parchment-paper lined baking sheets. Press a fork into the tops of the rounded cookies to give them the criss-cross design, and bake in the oven for about 15 minutes, checking on them at 10 or 12 minutes to see whether they are done.
OK--now onto other matters: I have now experienced what I am going to call "retail amnesia." Apparently I purchased something at Sephora last week but had no memory of it. At all. However, it was a pleasant surprise to get it in the mail when I got home...does this mean that I Internet shop too much?
*But* I did a brief google search before baking...and it paid off! This recipe totally rules.
Preheat the oven to 350. I added a 1/2 cup of flour the second time I made these (which I've incorporated in the recipe, below) to prevent them from getting too sticky at the dough stage.
2.5 cups whole wheat pastry flour, spelt flour, or unbleached all-purpose flour (I recommend using half whole wheat, half all-purpose)
1 teaspoon baking soda
¾ teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup natural peanut butter (either smooth or chunky)
2/3 cup pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons agave syrup
1/3 cup oil (I used canola)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Mix the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients separately. Once thoroughly mixed, add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until the flour disappears. I use my electric stand mixer but you could do this by hand.
Using a tablespoon, drop these onto parchment-paper lined baking sheets. Press a fork into the tops of the rounded cookies to give them the criss-cross design, and bake in the oven for about 15 minutes, checking on them at 10 or 12 minutes to see whether they are done.
OK--now onto other matters: I have now experienced what I am going to call "retail amnesia." Apparently I purchased something at Sephora last week but had no memory of it. At all. However, it was a pleasant surprise to get it in the mail when I got home...does this mean that I Internet shop too much?
January 24, 2012
January 22, 2012
January 19, 2012
Six degrees?
OK, so it is supposed to get down to six degrees tonight...today it was a whopping 13 and I got home wanting to get into a vat of soup (basically). So that means...tonight Lev and I are making everything-but-the-kitchen-sink soup! Pearl barley? Why yes. Mushrooms? What would we do without them? Leeks! Carrots! Parsley! And, of course, our friends onion and garlic.
Behold!
Last night Lev and I had our first group fitness class. I am so sore I can't even tell you...and Lev just asked me how many pushups I thought he could do, right now. I can tell you this much, 24 hours ago at this time I was SUFFERING. But that's the only way to do it, right?
January 14, 2012
Today, the living room.
It's a beautiful morning. We had a snowstorm and now the sun is streaming in the window, the tree branches are fluffy with snow, and the squirrels are sleeping (at least I think that's what they do this time of year).
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| I found this bird at the thrift store. Ceramic and feels good in my hand. "A bird in hand..." |
January 12, 2012
Snow!
It's finally snowing! We were let out early this afternoon.
My street, this afternoon, while walking home.
January 5, 2012
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