5-day intensive meditation retreat with real Buddhist monastics, but no real coffee.
Thrilled.
Terrified.
Happy.
Eager.
Terrified…
Terrified…
Terrified.
See you next year!
Boring, I know…but I’m so nervous and nauseous about this retreat I really can’t think of anything better.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Gone Meditatin’…
The Salties Reign Supreme!
Dear brothers and sisters,
While you all forced caramel-filled Hershey kisses into the middle of chocolate dough and threw some powdered sugar on top of generic butter cookies, I peered just over the box and found a recipe that would change our world forever. It wasn’t the cookies’ oatmeal base or white chocolate chips that [...]
Snickers Shucking
That’s my sister, Snickers-shucking for her Christmas cookie entry. It can be a long, tough, expensive season. But any day that requires the unwrapping of 60 mini-snickers is alright by me. I only wish you could make an old-fashioned doll out of those wrappers…
Peace on earth, Goodwill to all.
Christmas always satisfies.
A Christmas in Queens
I’m winning the cookie contest with a recipe I’ve created, the likes of which the world has never seen. Chocolate will be shed on this day!
My brother, text message.
No doubt when Ken Burns makes the documentary about this first Jackson Christmas Cookie-off, my brother’s text will be read by Donald Sutherland over a [...]
A Puffy French Post…
Remember when Andrew thought he could step up on my turf directly and bring that “Wicked” mess all up in here?! Pffffff, wh’ever. We’re obviously going to have to agree to disagree. But since this is NOT “Andrew-centric””, I get the last word. And that last word isn’t “wicked”, it’s rad. [...]



