Face parts
My mom tried a lot of diets when she was in her twenties, I remember her saying, but no matter how little she ate it never showed in her face, which may be a subconscious reason why I always prefer pictures like this —
— to this.
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Raw! Vegan! New Year’s Day dinner
“I don’t like raw tomatoes on my salad,” he says. “How about yours? Should I cook yours a bit?”
I sighed. “She would not cook her tomatoes.”
“Kristen?”
I’m subscribed to hundreds of cooking blogs, most of which regularly feature things like beef stews or cream-cheese frosting. I don’t remember how Kristen’s blog on raw foods made it into my RSS, but it became one of my favorites in 2009. I brought her sun-dried tomato pesto dip to Thanksgiving dinner and everyone loved it.
Dogs of the rez
Tamara LaPlante is the patron saint of stray dogs, which run rampant here.
She currently has 19 dogs, I think, plus what seems like a hundred cats and kittens.
It’s become a tradition among volunteers to give Tamara a bag of dog food before leaving the reservation. Now that it’s so bitterly cold outside, I understand better why Tamara fosters so many dogs.
She offered to host Pixel at her house, too, which was really sweet. So my little Maltese —
— almost befriended this guy —
— until I realized Frontier Airlines doesn’t allow dogs on its planes.