Matt on October 24th, 2007

The job goes ever as the job must, with apologies to Seamus Heaney. Fortunately, today there was plenty to enjoy. It was my night to cook. I got ambitious and tried to make chicken pad thai, one of my favorite treats at local Thai eateries. The experiment was a god awful smelling mess at first. [...]

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Matt on October 18th, 2007

It’s harvest time in Iowa, but the sky isn’t cooperating. We’ve had a caravan of clouds rolling west to east for days. It just spits enough rain all the time to keep things damp, but sometimes it comes down hard and pounds the vent outside my bedroom window like an out of tune drum. I’d [...]

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