It's Thanksgiving week, and so I decided to re-post this reflection on a vegetarian eating turkey in honor of the holiday. Though I had started this blog before this post, it was a rather attenuated thing, and so I like to think of this as my first … [Read more...]
My hands smell like turkey (redux): reflections on a long-time vegetarian eating meat
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sunday Salon: Random ramblings
November 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s been an exciting week in the You Think Too Much household. Last week, hours away from the kick-off of the Bengals/Steelers game, our flat screen television was fried by random electrical surges. The good folks at the power company came and fixed … [Read more...]
Simple Saturday: The beauty of the panini maker
November 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This Friday is a Kitchen Favorites party over at 33 Shades of Green. Tell us about one of the favorite things in your kitchen and add your link. I thought I would share my own love for my panini maker.For a while now I’ve been compiling a list in … [Read more...]
Top Ten Tuesday: The books that time forgot
November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This week’s Top Ten list from The Broke and the Bookish is so easy that I could not resist. They ask you to list the top ten books collecting dust on your shelves. The ones that have been there forever, but you just have not gotten around to reading. … [Read more...]
The Way of the Pilgrim and prayer without ceasing
November 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Back in March, I hounded persuaded BookBelle to review The Way of the Pilgrim, which she had read for a Spirituality class. I’m happy to report now that I've finally read the book myself, and that when you Google “Way of the Pilgrim,” BookBelle’s … [Read more...]
The things we forget: fall (part 1)
November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Fall is my absolute favorite season of the year. When everyone else begins to groan about the gloomy weather, the rain, the chill in the air, I rejoice. I despise winter. I love spring in exact proportion to how much I hate winter. And of course, … [Read more...]
Top Ten Tuesday: Stepping out…
November 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
...of your comfort zone. That’s the topic for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the good folks at The Broke and the Bookish. You can play along by clicking here, and then telling us all about the top ten books you read that were outside of your … [Read more...]
The things we forget: playing together
November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When I took piano lessons as a small child, it was in the basement of a woman who lived in a neighborhood behind the White Castle. The best thing about piano lessons was that we were likely to stop at the White Castle afterwards. In her basement, the … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: The Life of a “Professional” Musician
October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My fiddle, with my first checkAt the beginning of this summer, my husband and I came to the conclusion that the difference between the people who became that thing they wanted to be...a playwright, a musician, an artist, a writer...and us was the … [Read more...]
October Reading Wrap-Up
October 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s officially fall in southern Indiana. The trees were slow in getting started at changing, but the ones that still have leaves on them are doing their best. There’s one tree in particular on my drive to work that looks so brightly lit that it’s … [Read more...]
