so and than Descartes says…

You have to doubt everything to know anything with certainty.

love is action

“Love is not a feeling. No matter how much you feel, love means nothing when unrelated to action. Love is action,”

anne bogart, “And then, you act”

Thank goodness for giving feast

Scoff. Laugh. Dead stare.
Many of the reactions I get when I tell people who have known me for more than 4 years when I tell them I’ve been cooking.Baking even. And I’m making myself some Thanksgiving dinner, that’s not the frozen Stouffers in my freezer or the complete turkey dinner at the restaurant under my apartment for the small fee of $13.95. So far I’ve roasted the ham, and am baking my pumpkin pie. It’s actually sort of — gasp– fun. And when I take it as art and creation, it’s easier to bear. When you look at cooking and baking as shackles of the pre-feminist housewife for most of your life and are also intimatidated by forces of nature who take over the kitchen…. you well you stand aside and smile and eat what people give you. But seeing cooking as creating opens doors. As well as not being paranoid and imagining that the oven is going to go nuclear and blow. Or that I was unequiped with the extra cooking sense, so would never know if I was making good food gone bad.

Tomorrow I’m making scalloped potatoes, mashed colliflower, and possibly anything else that screams orange and brown holiday fun. Maybe I’ll pick up a potted plant, and color me Martha. So on that note of creating things… still on track. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving where ever you are and everyone out there can find some family, conventional or not to share it with.