So I tend to be the kind of person who has two speeds – 0 and 110. There is no in-between, it’s all-or-nothing. This is how I can be a person who so desperately craves order, stability, and tidiness and
The Moody Blues
Note: this is not about the English rock band So most of you who’ve been around for any length of time know that I have bipolar disorder. I’m not quite true Bipolar I, but it’s more intense than Bipolar II.
Morning Pages and Morning Blogs
A Patreon I support has started a new sub-community for artists that involves The Artists Way practice of morning pages. I’m not sure I want to commit to 750 words longhand every day, but I would like to try blogging
A gripe about recipe commenters
If, by chance, you are perusing a blog that is dedicated to Instant Pot recipes, it is really really pretentiously shitty of you to say something like “I don’t ever intend to buy an Instant Pot. Please convert this recipe
Product Review: Shapermint Shaper Shorts
Okay – so the ads are ALL OVER THE GODS DAMNED INTERNET. And I had a fancy party for New Years. So I bought a pair of the Shapermint High-Waisted Shaper Shorts to see how I liked them. For reference,
Style Grumbles and Thoughts
So I mentioned in an earlier post that I was doing this Dressing Your Truth thing, and that I was a Type 4 – Bold Striking Woman in that system. Which – okay. I definitely have a lot of Type
Tackling Projects Family Style
So my lovely parents came to visit me this weekend, largely to help me buy a car, because the last time I bought a car it was a really weaselly high pressure sale situation and I didn’t want to do
Introducing Janice
In 2004, my dad and I went car shopping, and I drove off the lot with a 5-speed manual Toyota Corolla that I promptly named Luna. Luna the Corolla was my companion on about 160,000 miles of adventures, but last
I made a bread
3 cups bread flour1/4 tsp fast-acting yeast1 tsp salt1 3/4 cups lukewarm water Mix all ingredients until shaggy dough forms. Cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm-room-temp location for 12-18 hours (this loaf got an 18 hour ferment,
On Gluten, IBS, Celiac, and Fermentation
So I’ve long wondered if the suspicion that folks have about “bread” making people sick (including me!) has as much to do with HOW we make bread and WHAT we make bread out of as it does with the supposedly