This
is my ideal English Muffin. I call this "toasted." Joe calls it burnt! He
doesn’t toast them—he likes them just lightly heated up. Before Joe, a
lifetime ago, I lived with Hub—he also liked them just heated up! I could never get a properly toasted English Muffin outta either one of them guys! Now I just make my own. I
think a witch cursed me when I was born to only love men who were
hostile to nooks and crannies toasted golden…
Well. The Olympics are on TV again. It's Day One. That means it's the 12th anniversary of my wholly unexpected, life-altering and remarkably inconvenient psychotic break . That fraught, violent week-long episode opened a chapter in my life that is still playing out in many ways. At the time I wrote in an essay called Behind Three Doors: "I went into the psych ward three times, under three different circumstances. The
first time I hav…
My husband is Joe Kowalski , an imaginative Gen X polymath and among the most talented people I know. I learned the term "polymath" from Hal Sparks. From Google AI search: "A polymath is a person with deep expertise across multiple, diverse fields, driven by relentless curiosity and the ability to synthesize knowledge from different domains to foster innovation and creative problem-solving." My good friend Diana (she's all ov…
OMG you guys. I posted this old entry back in 2015, as a Throwback to an old Diaryland entry from 2003. This is a funny story from the old apartment! LOL! Like we frequently say to each other, "We have been together a looooong tiiiiime." So Joe's been playing Army Men on
the Playstation. If you haven't seen this thing, it's this old school
video game where you play as green plastic army men, and you wage war
against the t…
Joe is irresistibly adorable in the morning, hugging the Bear and telling me he loves me. I mean, can you even? 💓
I'm off Facebook for awhile, but the last thing I did was look up some of the old posts from August 2023. That's when I had my stroke, and Joe had a heart transplant. This post from August 6th 2023 posted by my brother-in-law is quite chilling. "This
situation just became much more complex. As some of you know, our
sister-in-law Michelle suffered a stroke last week. She is currently in
the ICU and working on the long road to recov…
The
weirdest thing happened at about 8am. We were in bed, and I was asleep,
dreaming about something…I have no idea what. When I found myself
coming up from the depths of sleep saying “fish chair.” Joe was asking
me “What? What are you saying?” And I very clearly enunciated “fish
chair!” I like woke up saying the words and was aware that I had said it
a few times already, while simultaneously thinking “WTF am I saying?” I
don’t remember a…
I spotted this top in a catalog, and for about two seconds, I liked it. That’s how long it took me to remember something Joe told me a long time ago. It was a story from work. “I saw ________ in the stairwell at work today. She was wearing a red and white striped shirt. I said, HEY, I FOUND WALDO!” I must have looked at him with an expression of horror, because he said “What?” I said, “Joey! She is never going to wear that shirt again!” I really li…
Joe finished our Boston puzzle today. It's a graphic illustration of the city drawn in black and colored in, bearing names of all the landmark buildings and attractions such as Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall and the State House. He finished it so fast. It feels so strange to finally see this Boston puzzle assembled. The box is like an old friend that's just kind of always hung around. For about a decade it was the only puzzle in the house …
When my mom first met Joe, during Christmas some years back (I honestly can't remember which year), she loved him right away. During the evening at one point, she took me aside and said "Have you ever seen The Big Lebowski ?" I laughed and said yes, we'd seen it many times, it's a favorite. She proclaimed that Joe is the Dude, and that's what she started to call him. So now she'll say on the phone, "How'…
Me 'n Joey love that one. I can't imagine why.
This is an old Joe Show webisode , the first one we did featuring a guest, in the form of one Ian Adams. I love this one, even with all the flubs and silliness!
Joey brought me a second mug of his delightful French press coffee, but he wouldn't put it into my hands because it was so piping hot. He waited while I cleared a space on my messy desk, then he put down the coffee mug. "Did you not want me to burn my fingers?" I asked, "But what about YOUR fingers?" " My fingers have callouses from playing," he said, kissing me on my head. "The heat doesn't bother me.&qu…
but first I had a silverman. I think this went well.😀 8-string bass 5-string bass Headless bass with David Letterman sticker and no frets Baby grand piano Juno 60 keyboard DX7 keyboard (I'm blanking on the other keyboards) The Arturia thing The Beatstep KAOSS pads Acoustic guitar Electric guitar Drums V-drums Djembe Buffalo Drum Doumbek Uda Rock tambourine Other tambourine Thu…
I met my husband on stage, but I fell in love with him online. He had me at " James Dean ... smelling of whiskey and coke and some breakfast sausage ." AOL AIM INSTANT MESSENGER
Beyond Proof to Replace Ten Tables in Jamaica Plain
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A few months ago, it was reported that a neighborhood restaurant in Jamaica
Plain known for its locally-sourced New American fare would be closing and
th...
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