I love champagne. After my first non-winery champagne tasting though, I think the drink may stand up better to sipping in a social setting than to the comparison and analysis of a formal tasting.
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The “Localvore” movement - based on the lifestyle/challenge/whatever-you-want-to-call-it of choosing to eat only local products - has taken an interesting, in some ways inspiring, guiding principle to the extreme. Extremes aren’t always bad, but I won’t be cutting all of the imports from my diet any time soon. If you want to know why, Amy, of the blog Cooking with Amy, has perfectly nailed my objections in her recent post on the subject.
PostSecret came out of a project Frank Warren started for an art exhibit in Washington, D.C. Frank invited people to mail him their secrets, with only two requirements: “The secret had to be true, and it had to be something that had never been shared with another person.” The result is a dark, sad, disturbing, sometimes funny, visually appealing, and wholly fascinating site.
Only two days after I first wrote about Bob, he was adopted by a lovely woman who will give him a wonderful permanent home. 
Meg had been looking for a black lab and first saw Bob’s photo on a lab rescue site. She called Merced, who pointed her to the first of three contacts at Safe Haven, who finally referred her to me. She came to meet him Tuesday night and quickly fell in love. We miss him and we hope to see him again some day, but it’s good to know he is sure to be loved as much as he loves people.
