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In celebration of my slow but sure recovery from the gut-wrenching malady that struck my household this weekend, I give you my recipe for chicken soup. I hear it is good for the soul as well. You will need the following:
You’re going to mix 2 qts of broth and 1 qt of water in a large pot and bring it to a boil. While you are waiting for that to happen, separate the chicken meat from the skin and bones. Throw all the skin and bones into the pot and let it simmer for 30 minutes. As that is happening, chop your onions and prepare whatever other vegetables you selected. After half an hour, remove all the skin and bones and other non-liquid chicken parts by straining the broth through a colander. Throw all the vegetables into a pot with some oil and sauté for 12 minutes (or until the veggies are soft). Now combine everything – veggies, meat & broth – and bring to a simmer. You may need to add a little more broth at this point depending on how thick or thin you like your soup. Season with a generous amount of Creole seasoning, along with the thyme, black and cayenne pepper to taste. Let it cook down as far as you want. It’s done. Enjoy. Campbell’s ain’t got nothin’ on me. My wife and I have been dog-sick all day. I am thinking it’s food poisoning, just because it came on so quickly and we both got sick at almost exactly the same time, but some people seem to think it sounds more like a stomach virus. We did pork chops last night. Probably a bad move. This morning was an all-out barf fest. We were both running fevers, but mine seems to have abated. My wife is still pretty bad off. Her sisters have been amazing, though. We weren’t really prepared for a sick day, but they brought us Sprites, crackers and Tylenol. Not sure what we would have done without their help. Of course, I missed out on the WordCamp – which I am pretty bummed about. Also, that $25 registration fee? There’s no getting that back. Damn. It will be a while before I buy pork from Publix again. … It appears that I picked a good time to start feeling better, as I am able to enjoy the shellacking we’re laying on Georgia without having to get up and puke every half-hour. And what a game it is – halftime score is 31-0. I’m so stunned I can’t really process that yet. Now there’s another half of football to be played, so I’m going to tone down the gloating. Final update in a couple of hours. … UPDATE: 41-30 final score. Very cool, but there’s a lot to work on. That third quarter was troubling. Tomorrow it’s off for a full two days of WordPress seminars at WordCamp Birmingham! This ought to be interesting. Here’s hoping you will see the fruits of that exercise in the continuing evolution of this modest, scattered web site. I am sure there is going to be some talk on how to "optimize your site" and other entrepreneurial themes, which I am not all that interested in. Maybe there will at least be some knowledge about designing and writing that I could glean and apply to this personal blog. If nothing else, I suppose, there ought to be some interesting people there. We’ll see. (I bet you were expecting some exhaustive dissection of tonight’s presidential debate. Sorry to disappoint. I’ll let the YouTube footage, the pundits, and the full-time political bloggers handle that commentary. I just hope people are paying attention.)
January 2005
Today I was reminded of a phenomenon that is actually very simple – a smile can brighten an entire day. Trite, is it not? Don’t think I don’t know it. But it is true. I remember having really bad days completely transformed into wonderful days just because a person I passed on the sidewalk smiled a kind “he We have a duty, I think, to be kind to others – and I am often guilty of failing to practice that very basic rule. It is a small thing to smile, but it can set off a chain reaction of silent, mutual empathy among the people who move in and out of our little lives every day. So, in aid of nothing less noble than human kindness, here is a how-to guide to smiling. It is not like I was having a bad day today, but a tiny, genuine, sideways smile just lit it all the way up. Thank you for that. Now go out there and make other people’s lives a little brighter. Good night! … drawings above from the Anatomy of the Smile collection by Siegfried Woldhek |
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