Geronimo!

When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.” It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.

A LION DOESN’T CONCERN ITSELF WITH THE OPINION OF SHEEP

krusca you can enjoy all the joys of the sparkles without the hell of the Viniq, for I have tasted of the purple and the red death and found them unworthy. What you want are these culinary pigments called luster dusts. I’ve used super pearl, nu silver, and super gold, but there are a bajillion colors, and you can drop a teeny bit in any liquid for the same effect in something that actually tastes good. My favorite was the gold in a red wine. 

happysuns

Me: *does 1 out of the 10 things I’m supposed to do*