In these hard economic times, it’s a good practice to revisit some of the recipes our grandparents ate. They knew all about depressions and being broke and they didn’t know about ramen. I love chicken and dumplings. It’s cheap, it’s easy, and it’s tasty. Read More...

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WSOP Headlines: July 13, 2009 from PokerListings.com

You bought (received as a gift) a nice digital camera. It’s got buttons and knobs that say “P/A/S” and have all these funny pictures and numbers all over it. You look through the viewfinder (or look at the back of the camera, if it’s cheaper) and you see all these numbers. None of them make sense. You push the shutter release button, the camera clicks (sometimes the flash pops up and flashes, sometimes it doesn’t, but you don’t know why), and you want to understand what’s happening. You want to understand why your photos look ok, but not great. You want to take photos that are interesting and that look good on your wall. So you thought, “Jeremy knows cameras and photography. Maybe he can help.”

And you are right. I can help. Read More...

On the fourth of July Safi and I were hanging out while everyone else was out running around taking care of errands. She was piddling around, messing with this and playing with that, but I could tell she was getting bored. I was watching an episode of The Mentalist on my computer.

Safi walked up to me and said, in her best preschool teacher voice, "When this is over," pointing at my computer, "we can go outside and we can swim in the pool. Does that sound fun?" She smiled an enthusiastic smile while gently nodding her head up and down.

I was so impressed that I immediately said, "Well, the show's over, and going out to swim with you sounds like a lot of fun. Let's go!" She jumped up and down, squealing, and ran over to the door. We spent the next two hours playing in the pool, and had a great fourth of July.