LAURIE ROCKENBECK
My personal and random blog
Sweet And Sour Pickles A Crunchy Tasty Hit
I just got back from Las Vegas and another writing conference yesterday. It was a tiring but rewarding weekend. I met dozens of people I'd heard of and whose work I had read. I also talked to umpteen editors and publishers--tossing around story ideas and coming up...
Pickle Party 2011
I was at the produce section looking for bananas when I felt compelled to pick up a couple of pickling cucumbers the produce guy, P.J., had just put out. I rolled the cool bumpy veggies in my hand, thinking over the sagacity of getting into a canning project. P.J....
Peanut Butter and Pickle FTW
I'm getting ready to make pickles, so I go through the pantry to see what I have left by way of jars. Sometimes, I'll decide something is too old to keep and dump the contents just to have the jar. Today, I found just one jar of garlic dills remaining from last year....
Creating Worship and Why I’m Going to Stop
doing so much of it...I know the title got some of my fellow WUUCies to pay attention. If you've been at the Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church much at all in the last three years, you've seen me up in front leading services quite a bit. Whenever I lead a...
Roadtrip Essentials: Advice from a Survivor
When I was a child, getting into the car every summer is something we just did. With six of us and family across the country, summer vacation was all about visiting family, and not so much about traveling. In spite of our recent Irish road trip, It's not something...
Family Zumba
One of my cousins' wife teaches Zumba and led a few willing victims in a full hour class. This was my first Zumba experience, and the first time I've tried any group dance-laden exercise since Jazzercise in the 80's. Remember Jazzercise? Grapevines...sidesteps.....
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