Love and Food

Feb 17

Love and Food

For Valentine’s Day this year, I surprised my wife1 with a date to the The Loretta Paganini School of Cooking Valentine’s Dinner for Two.2 Sabra and I had always been very curious about the classes and events offered by the school, a local Chesterland establishment, and we both were very much looking forward to the evening’s dinner and festivities....

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Stand and Deliver!

Feb 08

Stand and Deliver!

Our story begins on the morning of Sunday, January 31. As I recall, it was a fairly nice looking day outside, despite the snow covering the grass outside our window. I glanced at the clock and realized that I had better get out of bed and get ready for church or we would be late again. Ah well. I rolled out of bed, when my lovely wife informed me that she had been...

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Two Thousand Ten

Jan 04

Two Thousand Ten

A new year has come, and over the last few weeks I’ve been pondering 2009. And I’ve come to one simple conclusion… 2009 was a year of relative stagnation for The Bearded Goose. I feel that I’ve accomplished very little, and I haven’t really progressed or grown over the course of those last twelve months. Don’t get me wrong,...

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Holy Crap! Where did November go?!

Nov 18

Holy Crap! Where did November go?!

Well… we’ve reached, and passed, the halfway mark through this surprisingly warm month of November in the year of 2009. And while much has been accomplished already, very little of it is related to the activities I thought I’d try my hand at. As a reminder, you can always head back to the post I wrote back on the first. How have I fared in these...

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November cometh…

Nov 01

November cometh…

Just a brief note to let folks know that November has arrived and there are a number of events in which I shall be participating, namely: 1. NaBloWriMo (National Blog Writing Month), in which I shall endeavor to draft and publish a blog post each and every day throughout the month of November. 2. NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), in which I shall endeavor to...

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