A writer with a law degree. A crazy woman in the kitchen. Sometimes able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Posted in Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, flickr, links, photos on Jun 5th, 2008
Old and new, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the aging process– how scary it can be to see people we love become frailer, or crankier, or more narrow-minded, but also (and in reading some M.F.K. Fisher) about what a relief it can be to get over some of the self-centeredness of [...]
Posted in Better Half, Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, flickr, links, photos on May 29th, 2008
My Better Half has many sterling qualities that are admirable and serious. But one of the most continuously endearing is his baby oranguntan hair in the morning. Every time I see it, I get melty all over again. What silly thing makes you fall in love all over again?
Happy Love Thursday. You can find other [...]
Posted in Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, Uncategorized, bipolar, friends, good things, links, meta, photos on May 15th, 2008
… or y’all, for my southern readers. What you see above is one of my favorite places—at my computer, with you, emailing with you, IMing with you, writing for you, reading your posts and comments, drinking my tea and enjoying the pleasure of your company.
When I started this blog, it was as a woman thrashing, [...]
Posted in Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, Uncategorized, bipolar, flickr, links, photos on May 8th, 2008
, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
I love tulips. I love spring. More encompassing, however, I love color– riotous color, that isn’t prissy, restrained, or proper. I’ve spent so much of my life in periods of depression that were charcoal grey, sooty, greasy, heavy, light-obscuring. Color is a jolt to my system, a [...]
Posted in Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, wine on Apr 17th, 2008
I love to cook– and my waistline makes no secret of it. But I don’t care so much about my waistline that food still doesn’t (and always) come first. I try to plan a few meals a week for cooking, and for working on my stack of recipe clippings.
But… shhhh… I get tired [...]
Posted in Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, Uncategorized, flickr, lawyer, links on Apr 9th, 2008
Teaching, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
Every year, schedule permitting, I judge the same mock trials in which I took part as a civil clinic student at Boston University School of Law. I learned more about lawyering and human nature in that year-long class than in any other course I took in law school. In many [...]
Posted in Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, Uncategorized, books, flickr, good things, links, photos on Apr 3rd, 2008
Putting back into one’s self, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
One of my favorite authors, Robin McKinley, writes of one of her characters in one of her books that she needed rest, because she gave too freely of herself– she needed time “putting back into her self.” While that particular character turns out to [...]
Posted in Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, flickr, links, sparkly on Mar 27th, 2008
I love looking up at architectural details. I love the details themselves– the different styles and eras, the different materials, shapes, sizes, choices. I love that the act of looking up, away from the path you’re taking, lets you see something unexpected, that can make you stop. But most importantly, I love the aesthetic, which [...]
Posted in Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, Uncategorized, books, flickr, friends, good things, links, nerd, photos on Mar 20th, 2008
Old friends.
There’s nothing quite like them. I do love a new book, at the kitchen table, on the sofa, in my bag for on the train, in line, at lunch. But sometimes, what I need is my dog-eared, water-marked from tub reading old friends– the kind of old friends you buy backup copies [...]
Posted in Better Half, Love Thursday, Shutter Sisters, cooking, flickr, food, friends, good things, links, photos on Feb 21st, 2008
The aim of all my cooking, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
I have, at various times, been more than a little emotionally repressed. Except when I cook– never then. Every time I get out the pots and pans, every time I pick up the knife, it’s meant as an expression of love. [...]