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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Jun 16, 2010 | Food, Uncategorized
I’d never heard of it until a few years ago either. If it weren’t for my avid gardener husband, I’d probably still be munching away on store-bought red-leaf lettuce indifferent to my plight. Orach, simply put, is a different sort of salad green. ...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | May 31, 2010 | Uncategorized, Writing
I make things up. I lie. It is not a malicious sort of thing on my part. It is simply part of my nature. In order to spin a good yarn, it’s important for me to make stuff up. I admit to it freely. Don’t believe anything I write, because what...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | May 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
A while ago, I was fiddling around with my wallet trying to find enough cash to hand to my daughter to buy some dinner. We were at one of our traditional Friday night dinners at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue and there was a crowd of fellow Three Cedars Waldorf School...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 26, 2010 | Fluevog, List Making, Organizing, Uncategorized
The other day we were in the car and my friend, who is about to have surgery, brought up the concept of “check-lists” and how impressed he was the surgeon uses them during surgery. My nephew is an airline pilot who has mentioned how important...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 16, 2010 | Chinese Food, Uncategorized
Yeah, I know. It’s a provocative title. I would like to remind some of you I have a degree in advertising, so I might as well flex the word-power every once in a while and employ a bit of shock inducing hyperbole. But, by the time I end this little post, I...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Apr 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
It was brought to my attention that I’m not really blogging yet. One post a month, apparently, is not enough. I was told by my husband that blogging is more off the cuff and not necessarily meant to be neatly rendered essays with witty quotations and...
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