Category Archives: Elvis Costello

Semaphore and Gibberish

Posted on November 4, 2016 by jamiesam

We’re at the second to the last vegetable box for the season which almost prompts me to ask, “where has the time gone?” However, I’ve spent almost every post bemoaning my own procrastination and sluggishness, and I know, on my … Continue reading →

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Meet Elvis.

Posted on October 13, 2016 by jamiesam

See these people? These sweaty, wonderful, generous people? This is my GRIT team. My gym family. The people who put up with my truly juvenile humor, my aging and creaky bones, and my often tenuous grasp on choreography. The people … Continue reading →

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Cerebral Tapas

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jamiesam

Catching up (again) with two boxes on which to report. Frankly, I delayed posting on the penultimate box because I had neither a culinary, literary, nor emotional trope to conjoin the produce with the workings of my head. I’m in the same boat … Continue reading →

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Knish Just Got Real

Posted on March 5, 2015 by jamiesam

Last November, I declared the oncoming season “The Winter of the Knish.” Little did I comprehend at that time how seriously this knish-worthy winter would kick my tuchis: the coldest February on record and ungodly amounts of snow have rendered … Continue reading →

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Beyond Belief: Love and 26.2 Miles

Posted on October 3, 2012 by jamiesam

For two weeks leading up to the Portland (Maine) Marathon, I tried to diminish every well-wisher’s expectations. Conversations went something like this: Well-wisher 1: Oh, wow! You’re running a marathon? That’s great! Me: If it rains, I’m only doing the … Continue reading →

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Noodling Around

Posted on January 18, 2012 by jamiesam

With the year of meat behind me, I approached 2012 looking for a new culinary challenge. Since I don’t have storage space for sides of beef or pork, large scale butchery was out, and since I don’t have the parenting … Continue reading →

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Brilliant Mistake

Posted on July 27, 2011 by jamiesam

You see, I was chatting. Chatting, when I should have been paying attention to what animal parts, precisely, I had pulled out of the freezer at Persimmon Provisions*. (*Not that any sensible person would fault me for trying to extract … Continue reading →

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