On the menu this week

This week I will make Cashew Chicken and Pork Tenderloin with Morel-Calvados sauce. I have never cooked with Morels before - should be fun and interesting. And Calvados... mmm I can't promise I won't drink some :)

I have made some discoveries recently -- I am preferring French cooking lately and I think it's because of the buttah...it's my weakness.

I'm craving long rides on my bike like never before but the weather isn't cooperating so much. And man, that sun goes down fast now.

For some odd reason, I've lost weight without doing anything different in my normal workouts. I like it when that happens.

I've added a couple of tunes by Til Tuesday - an old band from the 80s. I'm really digging Aimee Mann's voice. She's doing some good stuff on her own these days.

There is Another Sky

There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!

-- Emily Dickinson

Honing in

As the days shorten, and the nights grow long, I consider goals to accomplish before the snow falls. One of those few important goals is to maintain my focus on finishing the book editing. Focus focus. Get er done!

I must finish it because I have something new and very fun that I really want to write! No, I'm not telling...

Bedazzled

The boys were brilliant and magnificent in their glory last night.

They brought us a spectacular show of rock, funk, and even some hippy hoppy groove under a gorgeous Chicago sky and a four-pronged, 90-foot-tall canopy they called “our spaceship.” In fact the high-tech mega stage was flippin' unique and a monstrosity that couldn't be denied. They brought us the newly loved songs, the beloved old songs, and songs they have never played before. I was taken by the rare acoustical version of Ultraviolet, elated with Elevation, touched by Where the Streets Have No Name, in awe with No Line on the Horizon, moved by Magnificent and Surrender. For an encore, they played ONE and the crowd, for a short while...seemingly was. There wasn't one of the many others I didn't like.

The weather was perfect! I stood the entire time to honor the occasion, dancing and singing to the sounds of four men who brought me inspiration and joy for over two decades of my life.

One thing that never escaped my mind as I enjoyed the moments last night was that I will drink this all in, every last moment and every song with passionate love, for it is unknown if this is the last time. I don't, nor shall I EVER, take ANY of it for granted.

U2 360 Tour

Only 4 more days!
Only 4 more days!


So excited to see the dudes on stage and in CHICAGO! I'm so flippin' excited I'm flippin.

So of course, U2 tunage takes precedence lately.