Category Archives: Books

32. Scallop OmNomNombo

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Molly Newman

This might be a milestone, or something: the first day of the second month of Soup 365. Golly! So many soups left to make. So many, many soups. Inspired by the Saints' Super Bowl victory (Who Dat?) and this accompanying … Continue reading →

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A year in books (and a brief digression on music)

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Molly Newman

What did you read in 2009 that you’d recommend–or discommend–to others?
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Bake, braise, roast

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Molly Newman

A few months ago, I decided that I need to develop my skills (a la Napoleon Dynamite). And one skill I decided to focus on was baking: specifically, I wanted to begin baking all the bread that our family ate … Continue reading →

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Obsessions old & new

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Molly Newman

Jim: having our friend Mike build him some frames so he can pull together a photo show (location TBD; anybody know a gallery owner?); his new basement photo studio (pics coming) Fisher: the Pour le Merit medal (coming his way … Continue reading →

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November Rain

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Molly Newman

It's a cold, drizzly day here in Paradise City.* Yesterday was, too, and so I decided to make some bean soup. And because I was feeling unaccountably ambitious (and thrifty!), I decided to start with dried beans rather than the … Continue reading →

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Fritter fritter

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Molly Newman

Naturally, with such a lofty set of goals at hand, I’ve been ISO some high-quality forms of time-wasting. And since it’s a holiday weekend, no one is around to play Scrabulous with me… and since rain is threatening, I can’t … Continue reading →

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Books are for nerds.

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Molly Newman

And, apparently, reading books to your children is for nerdy parents. All the cool parents will now be farming out their dreary drudgerous reading-aloud duties to the Tag Reading System, a new wonder device from your good friends at LeapFrog. … Continue reading →

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The Woods

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Molly Newman

A music video for a song by Polly Paulusma, stop-motion animated by Rima Staines. If you could put your own artistic stamp on a folk- or fairytale, which one would it be? Which versions of the old stories do you … Continue reading →

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Another gem from the “duh” department

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Molly Newman

This just in:Study Links Drop in Test Scores to a Decline in Time Spent Reading (NYT) You don’t even have to read the article to know what it’s going to say. I mean. Isn’t that kind of like a headline … Continue reading →

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Pick nine, only nine

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Molly Newman

From the NYT Lede blog: The president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, is trying to encourage more of her citizenry to read books by giving boxes of as many as nine books to 400,000 poor families, according to The Economist. The … Continue reading →

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