Order from Chaos

Mrs. BA and I are big fans of the Baked Potato soup that we used to get at Houston's restaurant . (After a while, you could only get it...

Can you really have a recipe when you're going to talk history of the official food of the greater New York area? We'll see what we...

Today would have been my mother's 79th birthday. I miss her everyday. The house I lived in growing up was near a major road, which freq...

Because she said I would. 1. Who was your FIRST prom date? The one I actually went to? Kim from Huntsville, AL. The first one I was invi...

Yet one more reason that I am not allowed to own a deep fryer. I would certainly be dead by now. French Fry Coated Hot Dog from this websit...

I know I've mentioned this before, but I love kottke.org. I'll even forgive him for a recent post when he got snarky (well, quoted ...

I found out that I lost an election today. As many of you know, I was a candidate for Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conferenc...

Can you believe it has been a little over a month with our new president? I get all giddy when I hear about "Former President Bush...

Today is the third anniversary of my mother's passing. Next month she would have turned 79 years old. There are days when I really wan...

Today was the finals of the "Great Gingerbread Bake-off" for the lunch table group. For several weeks we were all treated (?) to ...

LBA has a thing for croissants. I think he would eat them every day for breakfast. Is it the butter? When I first saw this recipe on Cheve...

As I have reported here before, I am a volunteer usher at Ford's Theatre , here in Washington DC. The highlight each year is, of course...

Picking up on the financial ruin you all are suffering if you didn't eat crepes on Candlemas Day, here's a story that rose to the su...

This was created by the venerable archivist, Terry, who blogs here . He created this meme . Here is my own take on it: Rules: Six categori...

I have a bunch of random things that I have been meaning to toss out here. None, on their own, warrant a post alone, so here's the big ...

I know, I know. Usually I will use this day to remind people to eat crepes as it is Candlemas Day (You can click on "crepes" and...

There is an interesting medical condition in which individuals lose their ability to smell, in many cases due to some sort of head trauma. I...

Today is the 42nd anniversary of the launch pad fire at Kennedy Space Center, which claimed the lives of astronauts Virgil I. "Gus...

One of my as yet, unstated New Years Resolutions is to get a handle on the clutter that is overtaking the Brave Astronaut launchpad. The pr...

From C in DC, here's another Friday meme. Feel free to play along. She got it here . Put your iTunes or MP3 player on shuffle. For eac...