My friend is having a baby in a month. Since she’s Russian, I thought it would be funny to make her a baby blanket using a matryoshka-print fabric I’d been eying at Peapod. The reverse side of the blanket is a super-soft flannel and I used a cotton rickrack along the border. The finished blanket […]
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I woke up yesterday craving donuts – I’d finally gone to Dynamo Donuts last week and hadn’t been able to get the thought of delicious fried dough out of my mind. Rather than trek the four blocks in the rain to the sub-par neighborhood donut shop, I decided to make my own. They are surprisingly
These Strindberg and Helium interstitials play on KOFY. It’s so bizarre – one minute I’m watching a Law and Order rerun, and the next I’m watching a pink balloon sing “Heeeeeeeeeliummmmmm.” I was re-enacting parts of them for my coworkers and they – once again – told me that I have a warped sense of
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Three years ago today, I picked up Jake from the Rocket Dog Rescue booth at the Noe Valley Street Festival. He was skinny and skittish and had dandruff, but when he jumped into my lap and licked my hand, I knew that I had to keep him. It was clear from the beginning that he