"I LOVE your blog! I like your creative juices, and the pictures of your food are mouth watering! They're very beautiful. I come here on a daily basis to read Dirty Dishes, too. I get ideas from what you cook and I also get inspired by you. You give me courage. Thank you for doing that for me. Keep posting current content 'cause you ROCK!" --from a female viewer … [Read more...]
Live and Let Live
Live and let live--even when it kills you, when the recipe is wrong after discovering that the eggs are bad... when you've made it all for nothing, so the batter doesn't rise. Maybe the baking soda went flat. … [Read more...]
No Ownership
Nobody owns a person. People are not possessions, credit marks for a person's false glory and self-indulged reputation, and our children are not us. We are parents bringing or who have brought forth. Children are not created to be used as weapons to injure a person or a party of people. Children are a gift--ask those who cannot have children. Just as they were created … [Read more...]
The Good of Incompleteness
What defines you--really? Does it go further than who you are? What you do? What you believe in? What you have? Where you've been? How far you have come? How much further you have left? What your successes are? Your failures? … [Read more...]
Humble Opinion
"What the F*K would you know about ANYTHING you f*d up scrawny ass B*!" --from a male reader on 'Dirty Dishes' … [Read more...]
People of Society
A Dreamy Life
"You seem to be more for men than you are for women and for women's rights. Your following is more guys. Why is that if you say your blog is for everyone? It's not for me, I don't have time for your dreamy life. I'm a working woman." … [Read more...]
Accept and Embrace
There's no guarantee that someone is going to stay with us, whether or not we're going to be cherished for a lifetime by someone who means the world to us. … [Read more...]
A Broken Place
A Broken Place, exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen This might be the best place to be. It might not be such a good place, but it's the right place for a given time. … [Read more...]
Skipping the Holidays
[Chocolate-Sesame Cookies] Skipping the holidays might not be such a bad thing to do. It could possibly be the "fix-all" to the seasonal stress. … [Read more...]