Archive for September, 2011

How Old is Too Old to Trick or Treat?¿Cuál es la edad adecuada para dejar de salir a pedir truco o trato?

Posted 19 September 2011 | By | Categories: Holiday | 10 Comments

I can’t tell you how annoying it is to buy Halloween candy every year just to have half of it gobbled up by carousing teenagers wearing shoddy costumes. Oh, wait – I think I can describe how annoying that is. It’s fracking ridiculous, and I want to punch them all in the face and tell [...]

September 11th and Why It Will Always Matter to Me11 de Septiembre y Porqué siempre va a ser importante para mi

Posted 11 September 2011 | By | Categories: Holiday | 6 Comments

Disasters change the way affected societies think about the world. For instance, 9/11 changed our politics here in the US, and it will probably never look the same as it did before 9/11. That’s a societal change. We all now, as a group, behave, for better or worse, differently. We’re no longer oblivious to the [...]

Leftover SandwichSándwich de Sobrantes

Posted 04 September 2011 | By | Categories: Fun Stuff | 3 Comments

What do you do when you open the refrigerator and find some leftover grilled chicken, eggs, bacon and barbecue sauce?  You make a sandwich out of it all of course!  That’s what I did yesterday, and this is the result.  The only thing I did apart from heat it all up was to saute the [...]