Give 'em hell, Harry!

They must have brought a busload of pantsuited fifty-something females from NYC to the DNC meeting held in Virginia today. That’s what it looked like. Placard (“Hillary”) carrying followers swarmed the Sheraton lobby making it look like there were no other candidates. Ugh! I am suffering from Hillary-itis. After walking a mile to the hotel (no parking in the hotel lot today) and then waiting in the cold for two hours (I did convince two young female Edwards' supporters to listen to Obama’s speech), I finally heard the man speak. Needless to say, he more than made up for his camp’s disorganization, looking and sounding like a president should. "Change we can believe in." The crowd went wild proving numbers don't always matter; the Edwards' girls told me they were converted. And in the end, due to an unrelated hostage incident in NH, Hillary never spoke. Justice prevails.

Crash Test Kitchen

My very favorite vlog (actually, I only know one) is Crash Test Kitchen hosted by Waz and Lennie, a couple of young Aussies who live in London. If you are an Anglophile like I am, these episodes will take you back to England through the kitchen. I just learned a new word from them, too, "collywobbles," as in "watching the Republican YouTube Debate gave me the collywobbles." Check it out.

Waiting Just For You

Like Minded-ness

I want to be with people who think like I do.

Thought for the Day - 2

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. " - Neil Gaiman

Now that's discouraging and explains a lot. It turns out Neil Gaiman is a well-known fantasy writer. He also wrote for "DC" Comics -which stands for "Detective Comics" Comics which I discovered last week while playing "Trivia for Dummies." Isn't it funny how some things repeat themselves (words, trivia, history?).

Expiration Dates

Do you ever wonder whether really old people think about how they'll never need to buy another this or that. Like they're going on vacation or something. When you're 86 how long does something have to last. (Now you know why I couldn't sleep last night.)

Click here: Postcard Secrets

Book, blog, and video.

Thought(s) for the Day

Happiness is a place between too little and too much.
-Finnish Proverb

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
-Aristotle

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
-Snoopy

Berit's Banana Cake

I am ecstatic at having found a crumpled old copy of this Banana Cake recipe. It is named after my Danish friend Berit who made this cake all the time in Nairobi over 20 years ago. I had thought my only copy was lost when my computer died last month. But lucky for me (and you, should you try it), here it is:

4 ripe bananas
2 eggs
1 t vanilla
1 1/2 c sugar
1 stick butter, softened
2 c all purpose flour
1 t baking soda
1 t baking powder

Mash bananas and set aside. Cream eggs, vanilla, sugar and butter. Add mashed bananas and slowly incorporate remaining dry ingredients. Do not overmix. Pour into greased bundt pan. Bake at 350 for approximately 50 minutes till toothpick comes out clean.

We always made this cake with the small, sweet Kenyan bananas (at least 8 of them) which made the cake even better than it is here.

Tastes As Good As It Looks

We had a spiderweb taco for our Halloween dinner last night. We didn’t eat the spider.