Just For Fancy Musings of a self-proclaimed Fancy-Pants.

The paparazzi won’t leave me and my girls alone…

I’m thinking about Thanksgiving dinner…
Filling

4-5 sweet potatoes, cooked, peeled & mashed
8 tbs butter
2 eggs
1/2 cup light or dark brown sugar (packed)
1/2 cup hot milk

Praline Top

2 tbs butter
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 cup dark brown sugar (packed)
1/4 tsp each salt, cinnamon, nutmeg
1 cup chopped pecans
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 375 (F).
Mix the sweet potatoes (still warm) and [...]

So, the homeless guy who’s been living and screaming in the lot across from my apartment building was finally relocated to a better environment this past weekend. And when I say “relocated”, I mean tackled by the police and put in 4-point restraints… and when I say “a better environment” I really mean prison/psych-ward. [...]

I don’t scream very often, as it happens. The occasion just never presents, and frankly, on the few occasions when I was specifically asked to scream (eg. as Elaine in my high school’s production of Arsenic & Old Lace, c1990), I tend have a difficult time mustering the internal combustion that’s necessary for a really [...]