Katherine Sharpe | a pilgrim’s blogress

Week 6: Cultural Events

This idea of blogging each week, á la my first blog, has really gotten away from me. Let me try to bring it back.
About a month ago, I decided to start going to more cultural events. I’d gotten to feeling like a real freelance hermit, like I wasn’t meeting any new people, like I wasn’t [...]

Gets Nostalgic About Blogging Innocently

Where the magic used to happen, circa 2003.
Just as I’ve been re-designing the outward look of this blog, I’ve been thinking to myself about what it’s for, content-wise. I miss the old Too Much Katherine blog! Blogging was easier then, and I have been wondering why that is. I think it’s because I was totally [...]

Dinner, 11.17

I went away for Thanksgiving. I finished a couple of big projects. I came back here and took the first couple of days off in weeks. I gave the first bit of attention I’ve given to 400 Words in a while, and it was to make a step that I’ve been thinking about for a [...]

Fall and Winter Budget Recipes, Volume IV: Homemade Granola on the Cheap

I just noticed another budget recipe link: the Whole Foods Budget Recipe Challenge. I think it’s pretty rich that Whole Foods, aka most expensive big chain grocery ever, is sponsoring a budget recipe challenge, but it’s their prerogative. I do find the salad bar at Whole Foods Union Square to be a guilty pleasure (financially, [...]

Recipes Not Required

Lunch today: Two pieces of avocado toast, and one baked sweet potato, brought to work in a tupperware container.
“Your lunch smells good!,” says a lady in the café area.
Dinner last night: The thing I’m taking to calling “bistro spinach,”* a bowl of stovetop popcorn, and a bottle of ale, around 11 p.m. It was autumn-tastic.
Other [...]

Our President.

The presidential election feels too momentous and deserving of quality to quickly write anything about, and yet, it feels too momentous and deserving of attention to put off trumpeting. So, because I don’t have time to write more than quickly, a few elliptical thoughts about our new leader…the first in my adult life about whom [...]

Cute Overload Gone Wild

New blog alert: The indomitable Andrew Bleiman of ScienceBlogs’ own Zooilogix, aka the wittiest wildlife blog of all timez, has started a diabolical new project. It’s a blog called ZooBorns, featuring reader-submitted pictures of the cutest exotic baby animals from zoos and aquariums around the world (check the baby stingrays, which are born live and [...]

Aspirational Sleeping

My sister just told me that she aims to get nine and a half hours of sleep every night. She’s my new hero.

Image: Riot Jane, from her 365 Days of Self-Discovery set.