Monthly Archives: June 2008

How to Bake a Better Butter Cake

Butter We begin with butter, naturally. This is a butter cake we’re baking, after all. We hope it will end up a butter cake, anyway. Who knows, till all the steps are followed with dutiful precision, and even then. Who knows? We can’t predict the results, but we can hope. This will be our first

Breakfast in Bed

  There is no breakfast in bed, of course. By the time we have finished with our waking and our washing, sacred morning rituals observed carefully without haste or hurry, the day’s first light has already found its way into our humble sanctuary. We have to leave and head for work. A week similar to

Kitchen Confessional

. The wolves are howling outside the door. Winter has come early this year. Snowstorms are more common now; fatalities pepper the landscape like warnings. Stay and stray not outside, lest you invite Grandmother Death in as you wander. Do not wander. Be faithful to hearth and home. Come inside, my dear, and sit with

Waking & Washing

  We have our routine. You wake up first, usually. You sit on the bed, trying to shake yesternight’s dreams off, slowly letting the day sink in. I’m awake too, but most mornings you don’t notice this. I lie on my side of our bed, still snug and lost in the rolls of the comforter

This Used to be Happiness

. I have to find you. The morning has turned cold on us. Dark clouds, a shade of sorrow splashed across the heavens. Grey is a feeling, no? It will rain soon enough. Just enough time to drive out and buy breakfast. The warm slabs of chee cheong fun and a big bowl of tau

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