Matzo Ball Soup

I made it! I've been telling people about making it for a few weeks now, but I finally got around to doing it. Mostly because I found Matzo at $0.99 per box at the supermarket (where I originally went to get a soda and some butter). I made them with chicken stock. The only problem is, I made enough of them to feed a small army, so if anyone has a hankering for Matzo Ball Soup, I'd be happy to send some your way (provided, of course, it does not entail...

Categories: Brooklyn, foodie, matzo balls soup

Love Will Tear Us Apart

When Routine Bites Hard,And ambitions are low.And resentment rides high,But emotions won't grow.And we're changing our ways,taking different roads.Love, love will tear us apart again.Love, love will tear us apart again.Why is the bedroom so cold?Turned away on your side.Is my timing that flawed?Our respect run so dry?Yet there's still this appeal,that we've kept through our lives.Love, love will tear us apart again.Love, love will tear us apart again.Do you cry out in your sleep?All my failings exposed...Gets a taste in my mouthAs desperation takes...

Categories: love, music

Mad Rush

My fingers stroked the keys of the Steinway in the Villard Room with the same ease and familiarity they always had - as if they had been practicing on it every day. Philip Glass's Mad Rush echoed throughout the College Center, bringing back old memories long forgotten - the taste of sweet potato fries at the retreat, snowy days in the warmth of the music practice rooms, late nights at the Vogelstein editing rooms - the endless battle against our heavy eyelids, the smell of maple syrup boiling in our stove, perfectly cooked fried eggs on an english...

Categories: Hudson Valley, Poughkeepsie, travel, Vassar