Blog de Puree

When I was a collegiate rower, I remember lugging my coach’s heavy launch with a deep keel from the boathouse to the dock. The coach had to watch how fast he was going so that he didn’t create a wake that interfered with the rowers boats. My senior year, we upgraded to a flat-bottom boat, [...]

Randye and I cooked potato latkes from scratch tonight in preparation for Hanukkah, which starts this Friday evening. It was also the first opportunity we had to cook together in the layout of the new kitchen–one of the major factors in the design we chose. As we had hoped, things went quite smoothly. We weren’t [...]

I had an interesting conversation at a holiday party the other evening with a gentleman who works as an editorial director of a Web site of an extremely reputable and globally recognized organization. Like countless other sites, his was also experiencing a complete redesign and strategy overhaul. Similar to many companies, he explained that they [...]

From the mind of our cat Bouche: “Hmm, I know I’m in the middle of eating this delicious bowl of chicken and liver for lunch, but my human’s tuna sandwich smells good too. I will go and cry for some of that instead.”

It was a glorious Sunday in the northern Seacoast area of Massachusetts–the temperature hovered in the high 50s/low 60s and there was hardly a cloud in the sky. We took advantage of what was possibly the last fall-like day of the season to head to an undisclosed beach for an hour or so to collect [...]

After the successful redesign of our kitchen, our basement was a complete mess despite the efforts of various contractors cleaning up after themselves. We also had a lot of wood, siding, insulation and other raw materials that were not used, but that we had paid for and opted to keep. I finally agreed to keep [...]