How to Make Fresh Buttermilk Ranch Dressing or Dip- So Easy! | eHow.com

How to Make Fresh Buttermilk Ranch Dressing or Dip- So Easy! eHow.com: "InstructionsThings You'll Need:
1/2 cup fresh buttermilk
1/4 cup mayonnaise- regular, low-fat for fat free
2 tablespoons white-wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper
1/4 cup of minced green onion
1/3 cup or more of chopped fresh herbs such as parsley, basil , chives, tarragon or dill (optionally use 2 tablespoons dried herbs)

Step 1 Whisk or use a jar with a tight fitting lid to shake together all ingredients until well blended.
Step 2 If using a whisk, stir in herbs, onion and bacon bits after whisking remaining ingredients.
Step 3 To add variety try adding finely chopped red or white onion and/or bacon bits or parmesan cheese.
Use your imagination and experiment with different herbs and other ingredients."

Yellow Journalism: Q. and A. With the Unauthorized Historian of ‘The Simpsons’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

Yellow Journalism: Q. and A. With the Unauthorized Historian of ‘The Simpsons’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com:

"This is really hard. O.K.,

No. 1:. “Does whiskey count as beer?” — Homer (after being asked by a TV announcer, “Are you on your third beer of the evening?”)


No. 2. “That man is my exact double … that dog has a puffy tail! [Chasing the dog] Heehee. Puff!” —
Homer (on seeing a man who looks as exactly the same as him, lying bloodied outside Moe’s tavern,
then being distracted by a dog with a puffy tail).

No. 3. “Me fail English? That’s unpossible.” - Ralph Wiggum"

Yellow Journalism: Q. and A. With the Unauthorized Historian of ‘The Simpsons’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

Yellow Journalism: Q. and A. With the Unauthorized Historian of ‘The Simpsons’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com:

"“Edie: American Girl” [about Edie Sedgwick] and

“Please Kill Me” [a history of punk music]"

Small-Business Guide - Real-Life Lessons in Using Google AdWords - NYTimes.com

Small-Business Guide - Real-Life Lessons in Using Google AdWords - NYTimes.com

CBC Radio 2 Playlist - Find out what you just heard

BEAUTIFUL SPIRITS Time Aired: 6:28 AMalbum:label:PERFORMER: JOHN SOUTHWORTH

TOO BLUE Time Aired: 6:32 AMalbum:label:PERFORMER: 7 WORLDS COLLIDE

POURQUOI Time Aired: 6:36 AMalbum:label:PERFORMER: MARIE-PIERRE ARTHUR

ONE GREAT CITY! Time Aired: 6:40 AMalbum:label:PERFORMER: WEAKERTHANS

Late Wife - Claudia Emerson

A little bit of a quick return to one of my favs.

In Late Wife, a she explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems.

Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years.

She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence.

Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks to her new husband, whose first wife died from cancer.

One of the most touching poems is when she realizes that her first marriage is over.

For those of you... divorced.. or separated.. maybe you can see a sliver of yourself in the poem.

Pitching Horseshoes

Some of your buddies might come around

for a couple of beers and a game,

but most evenings, you pitched horseshoes

alone. I washed up the dishes

or watered the garden to the thudding

sound of the horseshoe in the pit,

or the practiced ring of metal

against metal, after the silent

arc – end over end. That last

summer, you played a seamless, unscored

game against yourself. Or night

falling. Or coming in the house.

You were good at it. From the porch

I watched you become shadowless,

then featureless, until I knew

you couldn't see either, and still

the dusk rang out, your aim that easy;

between the iron stakes you had driven

into the hard earth yourself, you paced

back and forth as if there were a decision

to make, and you were the one to make it.

A gorgeous and poignant evocation of a moment of personal loss and the beginning of a new journey.

If you liked it.. look for the book.. a Pulitzer Prize winner!

Late Wife ~ Claudia Emerson

It may make you sad.. but it will definitely touch you and remain with you forever!

Ladybug - A poem about breaking up

There are times when a broken heart can be your best muse.

A moth... upended...
lies like a silky oak leaf
a collapsed tent between window frame and glass.
Stillness in death hides a mass of smaller details
and the dirt beneath.
The white sill is water-stained
on it life is dirt and still.

The fresh daisies
are drinking their glass of water.
This wish is sear
This wish is severe
What you ruin... ruins you eventually
and so we hope for miracles
I mean.. I hope.

A ladybug explores the window
I wander a similar path
my undercarriage not as evident.
I wish it well.. it seems to me
But.... yet... I am but me - to you it is clear.
I mean to vanish and unclear
and project on you some ancient fear.

If I were an insect, I would not be
this tented winged thing, fluttering like a lost bird
skinny legged like me, kissing the damp air
fumbling towards the face of another... seeking.
It came in last night as I closed the door.

I law awake, in the dark, seeing it touch my face

in my mind's eye.

It wanted out. I wanted out as well

I offered you a way through
Arms wide for wings.
Your suffering twinned with mine.
Your joy a companion.
Screen
Your lack of courage drives me in.
Doubt for dirt, white sheet for sill
You never stay enough or still
Enough to be likened to