Before we begin: HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!! May it be a fragrant,floral,foody,flirty,FUN day for everyone!! I, Musette the Ingrate, was going to start this post with my regular diatribe against Winter, then I realized it would be churlish and possibly irritate the Nature Gods who would then send down 423 feet of snow and ice and [...]
Happy Halloween to all of our ghoulishly lovely Posse peeps! It’s that time of year where we conjure our favorite (or most frightening, as the case may be) scents of the season and share them with you. So here goes … From Ann – After the long, hot summer we’ve had, I was really revving my broom in [...]
Walking through the mall a while back, I made my waythrough a crowd of people gathering outside a restaurant. And as I passed a group of men, a familiar scent waftedto my nose. It was YSL’s Kouros. I was immediately reminded of the early ‘80s, when I was incollege and [...]
Monday night brought the classic “wintry mix” to the Washington area – a custom blend of sleet, hail, ice and freezing rain that translates into good luck getting out of your house. I spent much of today shoveling ice and praying that the children will be back in school tomorrow. It seemed like the perfect [...]
New skillz I had no idea I had – map and compass. Who knew? Something about plotting points on a map feels like I’ve been doing it forever, and it’s a buttload of fun. Now, whether I’ll be able to translate that into finding my way in the wilderness? Well, I and you will know [...]