My Dog is Chelsea

Hey there, Internet.
There’s but a week left in February and yet this is my first post of 2011. And it’s a picture post at that. Shame on me, the writer who never has time to write anything that isn’t for a client.
[Well... not entirely true. Check out my new food blog: Remember the Pudding.]
Behold the [...]

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I’ve been thinking for some time now that I should create an MDIC spinoff blog that focuses exclusively on food. But then I pinch myself and remember — oh wait! Last time I checked I didn’t have time for one blog, let alone two.
So, there you have it, my waning readership, you’ll just have to [...]

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Last tomato season, I wrote a story.
A few weeks ago, as I was bushwhacking through my tomato jungle idly picking cherry tomatoes in my garden, I remembered it. And it occurred to me to submit it to my favorite food blog, Culinate.
So I did. And they published it!
That’s my exciting news: My first food-related essay to be published [...]

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I love September—the fresh fruits and veggies are out of this world. A couple of weeks ago I harvested these delicious beauties:

Calla is a watermelon connoisseur. So she was very interested in mine:

But she needed a closer look:

“Smells good to me — crunch.”

Thief!!

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I have kept a little garden for the past couple of years, but I’ve always a) planted starts b) sewn my seeds directly into the ground once the last frost was over or c) a combination of a + b. This year, I decided to get my herbs, tomatoes and peppers going indoors and avoid [...]

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