Ragwater, Bitters, and Blue Ruin

B and I were just talking (on the drive down to Zach's Shack to get a Chicago dog) for some reason about the musical Wicked . I posed th...

When I lived in Chicago, I seldom had hankerings for hot dogs. But when I moved to Portland eleven years ago, I suddenly developed weird int...

Knitting is my favorite winter sport, and while I knit I like to listen to audiobooks. I'm very particular about readers, and sadly I...

My sister and her husband are both artists. Every time I visit their apartment in Chicago--which houses, I'd say, hundreds of paintings,...

We Can Pickle That! Originally uploaded by Rozanne . Over the holidays we watched our way through the entire second season of Por...

I Saw a Ghost on Halloween! Originally uploaded by Rozanne . I seem to have forgotten how to blog. Is blogging dead? Should we hav...

What Happened? Originally uploaded by Rozanne . I laughed for five minutes when I saw this. The azalea has mutated horribly (I gues...

I like to take walks at lunchtime with one of my co-workers. A week or so ago, we were walking not a block from our office building and sudd...

Rip! Originally uploaded by Rozanne . This is Russell Stover's "Caramel Santa Covered in Milk Chocolate." It is not even ...

This is supposed to be a baby hat. I hated knitting this sooo much for so many reasons. Firstly, I foolishly--in a moment of high stress las...