Memory: Milk

As a child and teenager, I loved milk. Whole milk. When I was very young, a milkman delivered to our house, twice a week. We got the pasteurized milk in glass bottles with green tops, while my aunt & uncle next door got homogenized milk with red tops. That meant at our house there was … Continue reading Memory: Milk

MJ Monday-Meals: Lunch Hour

Warning: Self-serving 1st World Whining Ahead! Pre COVID, I had a whole hour for lunch breaking up my work day. I didn't have to think about lunch, because I could run out and grab something. I could run home and grab something. I had 60 minutes to deal with food. When COVID hit, my employer … Continue reading MJ Monday-Meals: Lunch Hour

MJ Monday-Meals: Leftover Salt Potatoes for Breakfast

I learned this trick when I was in high school, when I would spend weeks at a friend's camp in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. The first ingredient is leftover salt potatoes. Salt potatoes are a Central New York favorite. No summer event is complete without them. I am not a fan of … Continue reading MJ Monday-Meals: Leftover Salt Potatoes for Breakfast

Thursday Thought-Self Help: Deep Work

Deep Work by Cal Newport was recommended in a recent class I took. A bunch of fellow like-minded people started a book club and chose this title as the first to be read. Okay, maybe I'm not as deep a thinker as the others. Or maybe I've read too many "self-help for productivity" books over … Continue reading Thursday Thought-Self Help: Deep Work

MJ’s Musings: SEP-Lady Be Good

Lady Be Good is not one of my favorite SEP novels. I don't particularly like Emma (the heroine) or Kenny (the hero). I'm not a fan of golf.  The plot is absurd.  A prim-and-proper British schoolmarm wants to create a scandal to avoid marriage to a stuffed shirt back home, while the disgraced golfer she's decided … Continue reading MJ’s Musings: SEP-Lady Be Good