Wish everyone a relaxed, inspired and fun week!

Eggnog tasting has begun. Twice now some friends have gathered and we drank it with various combinations of spices and alcohol, including Cuban rum, dark rum and Baileys. On top we stirred in cinnamon, cloves, fresh mint and nutmeg. This is a delightful appetizer as well with the protein, fat and sugar content to pad the booze a bit.…

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Do you think that this combination would taste good, or have you ever tried vanilla in your tuna salad? Someone where I work gave this recipe to our ayis to make for a new lunch entree as a Tuna Salad Sandwich. We tried it a few days ago. We're supposed to try it again soon. I have my own opinion but I was wondering what you think? I'll post my opinion later!

The first winter I lived in Nanjing was in 1997-1998 in a huge old guest house on the campus of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The school had no heated classrooms and the heater in the bedroom of the house basically did little more than blow some tepid air. Usually I ate oatmeal with coffee that I made in a glass tea carafe because it helped to get warm every day for breakfast. Until one day, it must have frozen, because when I… Continue

Do you collect more and more things? Or do you like to get rid of things? Are you an accumulator or do you like a minimal amount of things around you? I was dating someone who has so many things, always getting more and more and more things. That kind of drove me nuts. Too many things start gathering dust but he didn't see it that way. He sees it as storage for what he might use later. Maybe we were meant to balance each other.



There is an art exhibit in Shanghai now called something… Continue

Do you recognize love more as a feeling, an action or something else?



To me, love could be being a friend to someone you even hate in order to do good, to show them a better way of something, even though that may not make any visible difference. It could possibly pain you to some degree also.



Lately I have the experience of the end of a very long term relationship, or the end of a human love. I feel so blinded and dumb for staying in for so long. But it is better that the… Continue