This week our worldwide food tour takes us to India! Starting with Chana Masala a moderately spicy vegetarian chickpea curry paired with fresh naan bread and finally a Mango Lasi to help curb the bite of the spicy curry. Difficulty: 3/5 Taste: 4/5 The curry was pretty basic, just chickpeas simmered in a tomato based…
I’ve always managed to be relatively successful during Lenten observation – and as I was considering which of the goals I wanted to pursue as part of it this year I thought to myself “Hey, what if.. now hear me out.. what if you gave them all up?’ The willpower to stop one particular thing…
I decided to go with the top 50 albums of all time (according to Rolling Stone) to choose the albums I’d be listening to. I know myself enough to know that if I just throw on the album my brain will convert it to background noise by the second song. So I decided to implement an…
Quick watercolor of Jordan Pond (in Acadia NP). Haven’t touched watercolors in a long time and it showed. However – I got out everything and put it on paper which is a big step as I usually always find time to postpone painting (Bonus: The kids has painting time with me)
Charlie Chaplin Silent Movie / Comedy In a reprisal of Chaplin’s ‘tramp’ persona he heads off to the Alaskan territory with just his cane (and woefully underdressed) looking to capitalize on the gold rush. He runs into a storm and takes shelter in what seems to be an abandoned cabin – but its currently being…
Type: Silent Movie, Comedy Starring: Buster Keaton The origin of slapstick comedy in movies? This movie is 100 years old but the laughs are pretty timeless. Keaton plays a train engineer who loves his train and Annabelle, a woman in his town. The movie is set at the outbreak of the civil war and when…
Name: Metropolis Type: Silent Movie / dystopian sci-fi Interesting take on a dystopian society where the elites live above in the sky in a city that is powered by the ‘workers’ that toil in the city below. The son of the rich people’s leader sees a woman trying to organize the workers for better lives…
I’ve always been a goal oriented person. I’ve been doing public shared goals for close to 20 years now and I’ve never managed to hit 100% on these goals (I think 70% is the closest I got). As I stared into my fifth decade on this earth I wanted to come up with something other…