: About Me

I've done a lot of different things in my 56+ years, studied a lot of things, lived all over California, southern and northern. I'm a third-generation Californian. If life is good I'll never live more than 100 miles from the Pacific coast, whether it's in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, or even British Columbia.
I've been cooking from scratch since I was 7 (tall enough to reach the stove!) and it remains one of the joys of my life. I bake all our bread for home, with the help of a 160+ year old sourdough starter.
I've studied "metaphysics" for over 40 years now, and I'm a psychic consultant (cosmic tour guide). My specialties are astrology, numerology, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and sometimes just good old common sense and what I've learned in my time on the planet.
I also love music, puzzles, reading, writing and organic gardening. I can use a chain saw, I can slice a loaf of bread, I can start a fire (in an appropriate place, of course!) and I can figure out almost anything, given the information and a little time. Don't play trivia against me, you'll lose.
I currently live in the rural high desert area of southern California, but my next goals are to attend law school (online) and move to rural northern California.

My passion is ...

intelligence and information

I know too much about ...

too many things

My parents always told me ...

everything they knew, then said, "Go look it up!"

My childhood ambition ...

Marine Biologist

My favorite memory ...

Learning that "the map is not the territory."

Why I write ...

Because if I say it, nobody listens. I appeal to a select audience.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading "A Prayer for Owen Meany"

My first job ...

babysitting

My best moment ...

Daily moments where I realize that getting old means not having to care what people think about what I think.

My inspiration ...

People who remain kind, AND intellectually curious, no matter what.

Food & Drink > Cooking (Other) How the Internet has influenced cookbooks

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Many things are displayed proudly in a foodie's kitchen, a colorful Le Creuset cassoulet, a shiny copper stock pot. But the most prominent feature in every kitchen is the cookbooks. Vegetarian, Barbecue, Chinese, Moroccan, every specialty under the sun. The Joy of Cooking, Betty Crocker, and books by Beard, Child, Waters, every chef ever seen on television - you know a cook by the books they accumulate. There is only one problem with all those cookbooks. Which of the fifteen Asian cookbooks is hiding that marvelous hot and sour soup recipe? Which one of those 200+ books contains that speci...

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