To catch you up on some of the recent culinary delights that have come out of my kitchen (well, culinary attempts, at least...) here is an update on two different dishes. The first was a Thai-style pumpkin soup made after Tawn requested that we have...

We were recently paid a visit from Singapore by David and Chor Phan.  To celebrate the cool season we dined at the 18th floor rooftop restaurant/nightspot called Zense, located at Central World Plaza on top of the Zen department store. There are...

The past week or so, things have just been off.  My mood has run foul, Tawn and I have had a hard time coming to agreement on some decisions we would like to make, and things have generally just been funky. Casting about for answers, I looked at the...

There was a lad of twenty months, He’d barely learned to walk. He loved to watch the dancers As they tango’d and fox-trot’d. He felt the music in his heart. His body knew the tune. He couldn’t wait until the day That he’d dance round the...

I'm a closet shopper.  Everyone thinks Tawn is the shopper in this family but sometimes I find something that I think is really cool and I'll buy it.  So it was while we were in Taipei and stopped by a branch of Muji, the Japanese "no brand, high...