Jun 9, 2020
* Not my pastry ** Great British Bake Off bakers made this *** This looks hard Consequence of watching the Great British Bake-off, I’m sure, but I have this indelible image of the flaky layers of the past three months collapsing in on themselves, and of losing...
Jun 3, 2020
And it’s only Wednesday. It has felt like the world was on fire. George Floyd’s murder is a horrifying testament to not having made much damn progress. I’m in awe of people protesting all over our country to say, “No. No more.” And this,...
May 28, 2020
Keep your camel safe! I know, I know, I hear all six of you clamoring for a new blog post from WednesdayMissives! Miss me much? Even if my blog never goes viral (doesn’t that phrase make you kind of gag these days?), I’ll keep writing it for me and the six...
May 18, 2020
I’m at the office, chatting with Roger and Christy. They’re talking about the strangers who chat you up in an airplane. We are all seasoned travelers working in multiple time zones who go to the airport like we’re going to Target. When I didn’t...
May 17, 2020
My dad, Gene M. Culver, is my guest blogger today, with a review of Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs. It’s not a book for the faint of heart – two volumes with illustrations and maps. He wrote it near the very end of his life and it became a bestseller,...
May 10, 2020
I miss Mom’s hamburgers, I miss when she would burp like a sailor and then act all surprised, and I miss how she cut Snickers into little slivers so she could eat them really slowly. I miss her long perfect nails and her hair curler box, and the ungodly amount...
