My Family Is Cool January 19th, 2007 @ 6:10 pm PST
At some point recently I stumbled upon Geni.com, a family-tree site. This is the kind of thing I seriously dig. It makes me sad that I can only go back two or three nodes on my family tree. My oldest nana is 86 and — when I called her a few minutes ago — was […]
Wine Biscuits October 24th, 2003 @ 7:34 am PDT
The Albanese Family’s World Famous Wine Biscuits 4 cups flour 1/2 tsp salt 2 tbsp baking powder 1 cup sugar 1 cup olive oil 1 cup red wine 1 tbsp anise seeds (optional) mix dry ingredients well add oil and wine mix well and let sit 10 minutes roll dough out in strips and form […]
Bookends July 22nd, 2002 @ 10:59 pm PDT
One of the glaring signals to me that I’m much older than I think I am is that I can no longer easily distinguish events from my past. I was going to write about something and I realized that I cannot remember if it happened five or ten years ago. The very fact that there […]