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| Friday, July 25th, 2008 |
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In momoriam. In gratitude of knowing. "It's not about how to achieve your dreams; it's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you."- from Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture I'll admit it--I obsess over things. When I heard about Randy Pausch's last lecture, I found it online and watched it, watched it again, then found his update site and followed his progress while he battled with cancer. Every short update left me inspired to live my life to the fullest. It's such a cliche, but the idea is so taken for granted. His life, in part, has shown me that the less I want, the more I have, and being content like that seems to open doors I would've otherwise missed during the daily grind. It's kept me focused instead of overwhelmed, and it's kept me motivated instead of stagnant in areas where I need to keep moving. I'd been thinking about him a lot this week in light of my birthday and had been anxiously checking for updates since the last one he posted a month ago. Today, I found his site offline. I followed a hunch and tried to Google up some news, and I found out he passed away this morning from complications from his pancreatic cancer. I encourage everyone to watch his lecture. It truly might change your life. ( Or read the lecture recap, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal ) |
| Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 |
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Va va va voom! Mmmm, double-vanilla cupcakes with pink vanilla Italian buttercream ... You know you wanna see more. You wanna see these babies ... deflowered ... ( But you gotta pay to play ) |
| Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 |
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Dining Out for Life, 2008 On April 24, 2008, restaurants all over Arizona from Phoenix to Flagstaff, will unite together for one night to fight against HIV and AIDS. As thousands of patrons fill their plates in support, these restaurants will be generously donating a substantial portion of each diner’s bill to Body Positive and Northland Cares. These two organizations support thousands of people infected and affected by HIV and AIDS across the state, and their research benefits millions more all over the world. This will be Body Positive’s third annual azcentral.com Dining Out for Life event and we would like to give our sincere thanks to the restaurants and locations that made the 2007 event a record breaking event ranking us 7th in the nation for dollars raised! This year our goal is to raise $200,000 and we need your help! Simply go to one of our participating businesses and they will donate a percentage of your food bill to benefit Body Positive and Northland Cares. It will be one of the most satisfying experiences you ever have! Check out the Web site for participating restaurants! You can hit MacAlpine's for their amazing fluff-a-licious meatloaf then hit Sauce for dinner--quite a variety of places! Swing by the awesome Simply Bread for some Challah or Sourdough, then land at the Cash Inn for a drink to round out the night. There are also some tire/auto places and random joints participating. It's never too late for new tires! It could save your life!!! |
| Friday, April 4th, 2008 |
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| Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 |
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If I were a color, I'd be up to my waist in body-warm water, facing sunset, dipped down baptismal style, backwards, full of faith, and hungry to be full. IIIIIIIIIIII'd be the color of spinning fall-down dizzy and of racing to beat the red lights, the color of loaded guns. When I was four, playing hide and seek with my brothers, I'd wrap myself in my mom's luxurious drapes that reached ceiling to floor, the color of gold run through with thread the color you see between the flaps of hummingbird wings, that fast, heart-ripping red. I'd be desperate, breathless, timeless, and still, like an antique clock with a tick tock strong inside it. I would be that color. (Psst. Now you know what color a tan raspberry, or tanrazz, is.) |
| Friday, March 28th, 2008 |
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I'm taking this meme from STEF-NEH and screening the comments so you can ask anonymously. Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings,thoughts on religion, favorite type of underwear, random techniques,etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other! |
| Saturday, March 8th, 2008 |
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Get well soon, to those of you who are sick, recovering, in mourning, sad, bored, apathetic ... ( three small bouqets from one bouquet from Maya's Farm at the Public Market ) |
| Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 |
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Oy. Thanks for co-creating the game that introduced me to my nerdy Hun. =) and =\ and =( |
| Monday, March 3rd, 2008 |
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Apartment Therapy, a book I'm reading as I'm "healing" my condo, suggested having fresh flowers in your home. This is the second weekend I've had them, and I really enjoy them. I used to really dislike the idea and practice of keeping cut flowers because watching them deteriorate and die was depressing. Now, I don't assign that sentiment--I love having plants--both live and cut--in my little house. From Maya's Farm at the Public Market, Feb. 23  ( More flowers ) |
| Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 |
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It's horrible and amusing: |
| Thursday, January 31st, 2008 |
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Look, jewels and Jewel (who swims in my thoughts today as I wish her well and luck)—I have found the mythical Eliphante! ( Woot! ) |
| Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 |
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 May your day be filled with hot tamales ...  ... and posole from the heart! Yummies courtesy of Nina's Place at the Downtown Phoenix Public Market--free posole for everyone who stops by at their booth tomorrow; the market will be open from 4-8! |
| Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 |
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Oh, the pies! ( Pie-ty and pie-ousness this way ) |
| Friday, December 21st, 2007 |
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 X-posted to One-Wall Kitchen I’ve seen a lot of amazing fund-raising efforts in my life, but this one takes the cake. Four years ago, a fellow food blogger, Pim, got the notion to get other food bloggers to donate foodie prizes to an online raffle. The amount of money this fund-raiser has raised for organizations that help stop and prevent hunger has grown in leaps and bounds. Last year Pim raised just over $60,000. The sale for raffle tickets ends tonight, but just in the past 12 hours, 25% more people have bid, and the total just reached over $72,000. In just under two weeks! That’s just amazing! Prizes are anything from dinner cooked by and eaten with top-notch chefs and tours of artisan studios, to a box of homemade cookies or some jars of homemade jam. One of the more interesting prizes is two-centuries-old bottle of absinthe! Go buy a ticket, Klute! ;D |
| Sunday, December 16th, 2007 |
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| Strange to say, but "Same Old Lang Syne" is one of my favorite holiday songs. Sometimes, I even tear up when I hear it. |
| Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 |
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 Double chocolate coffee cookies A lot of people have asked me about starting their own foodblogs or for other foodblogs they can check out. My advice to them is to read a lot of other foodblogs. I do, and there are too many to list in my regular bookmarks, but here are a few of my most favorite food blogs of late. I like them because they’re beautiful, fun, funny, informative, and inspiring: Eating Asia The Girl Who Ate Everything Cupcake D'Lights by Zalita Kuidaore Chez Pim Cupcake Bakeshop  Sugar cookies with "I was feeling lazy" icing And I’ve also had some people ask me about my fixation on food. Not a lot of people, since most seem to understand, but a lot. I can have my own private inner dialogue about food for long amounts of time. A large part is that I feel lucky to have good food, but since my doc advised me to be more cautious and selective about my eating habits, I’ve found other ways to apply my passion for food--supporting the Downtown Phoenix Public Market, writing about it, reading about it, and advocating and supporting others who do, too. With that diatribe, this is rad: It's that time of year again, when food bloggers from all over the world join together, taking leave from our usual frivolity. Throughout the year, we celebrate food as a source of joy, but for two weeks every December, we ask you, our readers, to help us support those who are not so lucky, to whom food is not a mere indulgence but a matter of survival. This Menu for Hope is our small way to help. Please join us. Menu for Hope is an annual fundraising event in support of the UN World Food Programme. Five years ago, the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia inspired me to find a way to help, and the very first Menu for Hope was born. In 2006, Menu for Hope raised US$60,925.12 to help the UN World Food Programme feed the hungry. Each year, food bloggers from all over the world join forces to host the Menu for Hope online raffle, offering an array of delectable culinary prizes. For every US$10, the donor receive a virtual raffle ticket toward a prize of their choice. This year, the prizes include once in a lifetime experiences such as touring the elBulli laboratory with Ferran Adrià , dining on a historic British meal prepared by Heston Blumenthal, or joining Harold McGee on a lunch date to satisfy a lifetime's worth of cooking curiosity. You can also tag along with your favorite blogger on a tour of their favorite markets,restaurants, or even receive a care package fashioned especially for you from your favorite bloggers themselves. All you need is $10 and a bit of luck. We may never eradicate hunger from the face of the earth, but why should that stop us from trying? Click on the Menu for Hope img above for more info and to see the awesome prizes that are being raffled away. |
| Thursday, November 8th, 2007 |
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It was already there--the artist just had to chisel away to free it, right? I'm obviously doing it all wrong. |
| Monday, October 29th, 2007 |
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Which has nothing to do with the fact that October's Daring Bakers challenge was the Bostini Cream Pie. |
| Sunday, October 28th, 2007 |
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I love that some kid's tie-dyed t-shirt won first place. I loved seeing the Spam-mobile, though I didn't get too close. I loved seeing the beat-up demolition derby cars. I loved the cover band, whoever they were! I loved getting parking, just 50 feet from the entrance. I loved that I got my ticket for free for donating to the state employee charitable campaign. Yay! I loved watching the artists drawing caricatures. So much to love, it was all so peachy keen. The male sheep had big balls, and that was frightening. |
| Monday, October 8th, 2007 |
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Cross-posted to One-Wall Kitchen Stop the Traffik As has become my Saturday morning habit, I went to the Downtown Phoenix Public Market, and as usual, I tried very hard to ignore the lady selling the chocolate. This time, though, the smiling lady at the wei of chocolate table caught my attention. She offered samples, and I tried everything she handed me. Each of the locally crafted chocolates that she offered was rich with character. "daily gratitude" seemed dark and earthy, and "sensual love" had a soft shove of spice and heat. I'll admit, I wasn't going to buy anything, but when she told me that her chocolate was organic fair trade, I was hooked and reeled in. I walked away with 4 ounces of her third offering, "daily love 75% dark chocolate"--it started with a natural sweetness and finished smelling like flowers on the breeze--nothing overbearing or assertive, which I appreciated. I was going to buy just a small bag, but then the woman at the table told me a story about someone who didn't even like chocolate, baking a cake with wei of chocolate and loving it. When I remembered the Stop the Traffik challenge that R Khooks was sponsoring, baking with wei of chocolate became a mission, and I made sure to buy enough to make one of my favorite recipes. ( Many photos and much text ) Mmmmph ...  A little about Stop the Traffik One of Stop the Traffik's key campaigns against people trafficking is the Chocolate Campaign, a directive to raise awareness of how children are traffiked into slave labor to harvest cocoa beans that eventually become chocolate. An estimated 12,000 children have been trafficked into cocoa farms in Cote D'Ivoire, formerly known as the Ivory Coast, which is a county in west Africa that provides nearly half the world's chocolate. Stop the Traffik offers a list of other "traffik-free" chocolates. A little about Fair Trade Fair Trade products come from Fair Trade-Certified farms that are audited to ensure they maintain the basic fair trade principles, which include fair prices for farmers who often see little of the total profit that their produce brings in; fair labor conditions, which allow for what should be basic, guaranteed workers' rights, such as safe working conditions and fair wages, and which prohibits forced child labor; direct trade, which eliminates unnecessary middlemen; democratic and transparent organizations, which guarantees that fair trade farmers and farm workers can democratically decide on how to invest revenues; community development, which allows fair trade farmers and farm workers to invest in opportunities that further fair trade practices, such as scholarships and organic certification; and environmental sustainability, which takes steps to ensure that healthy ecosystems are maintained for future generations. |
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