Therese Z's Profile

What is the door behind the comfy chair? Don't you need access?

I love love love a window over the sink. Makes the whole kitchen habitable.

Nice use of a lot of wood without looking woody.

Heavens it's easy to live without a dishwasher. I've never owned one - so a few times a year I have massive dishes to wash, after Thanksgiving or a birthday party. People help and visit and laugh.

I would love to own a washer/dryer. Our building's laundry room is very clean and big enough, but how wonderful would it be if I could do laundry naked or in the middle of the night!

There's got to be a toilet somewhere, but how anybody over, let's say, 45, and can sleep upstairs in a loft and have to climb down a ladder to get to a toilet in the middle of the night...uh, not so much.

But I love small houses anyway!

Aaah! The sliced people! That was my favorite exhibit at the Museum when I was little. They were just....sliced. Not marked up or fancy, just three-inch slices between two pieces of glass and you could get right up to them in a stairwell. There is the odd body hair and eyelash making it even more identifiable.

I love Chicago even though the worst of our politics is showing now.

Nothing says spring in Chicago like lilacs and lily of the valley. They seem so cool and fresh and pure. The tulips gets tatty so quickly but these don't.

I also have a pet peeve for people who are all in the child-bearing years and insist on having "grown-up" parties every time. This is the time for family parties - the grown-up ones can come back in a frighteningly few years.

I was ironing by the time I was 10, my father's handkerchiefs and all my own blouses (I think my mother probably took care of my best stuff). It undoubtedly shut me up if I was in a mood to complain about what was clean and what was waiting for attention.

Later on, I did all cotton shirts for the family, and all my own ironables.

Good practice for adulthood and a good addition to the family workload.

PLEASE...stop having kids. I mean it. We live in a finite world with limited resources. This is RIDICULOUS.

Please yourself. Mexico City's woes are due to corruption and neglect. You have no idea how badly towns outside the US are run (or conversely, how well our towns are run). The small farm towns and the farms themselves outlying most major cities are damaged and dying as their populations shrink dramatically. Don't be fooled by pop shift into cities (especially in India and neighbors, and Northern South America and neighbors) by claiming overpopulation.

Doing taco and pizza bars is the only way I can deal with my very annoying vegetarian relatives, as well as my delightful vegetarian relatives and friends, and the dieters and the non-dieters and the old ladies and....

It's ideal and it's fun.

What I like about your story is that if you do this for your friends and family, you are making your grandmother live and entertain again - it's so much more REAL.

It's fun to cook in ways we're not familiar with, and educational, and great entertaining. But when you can perpetuate the family traditions, it's so loving.