Sonya Schryer Norris

Bar Food Dinner

Once I posted about our super-food-co-op dinner. Last night we had home-made bar food. I didn’t want to leave you with the impression that we’re all healthy and routinely compare the subtleties of organic orange and yellow carrots. We’re not. We don’t. We had: Buffalo wings Potato skins Mozzarella sticks Yeah, we threw some rawContinueContinue reading “Bar Food Dinner”

Everest

Last week Sir Edmund Hillary, who, teamed with Tenzing Norgay, first scaled Mt. Everest, died at the age of 88 in his home country of New Zealand.* Hillary and Norgay reached the top of Everest after a brutal climb, and were later asked what they were thinking when they made the summit. Sir Hillary talkedContinueContinue reading “Everest”

Hubby and SnakeLady Film Festival Update

Hubby and SnakeLady Film Festival Update. The original idea was to go through the AFI’s top 100. We’re getting there slowly with a few lively diversions. Here’s where we are so far: Citizen Kane (oh, I get it after watching the commentary. It’s considered the greatest movie ever made because of the cinematic techniques. JustContinueContinue reading “Hubby and SnakeLady Film Festival Update”

Scrabble

So, me, my mom, and my brother are playing Scrabble this weekend. My brother is kind of new to Scrabble and he gets the American Heritage Handicap – he gets to peruse the dictionary before he plays a word. Which means he pretty much sits with it open in his lap. Mom played the wordContinueContinue reading “Scrabble”

Funny Story from Library School

I was remembering a great story from Library School today and wanted to share. A year or so ago I told the story of when I announced I was Bill Gate’s whore in library school. Bill gives a super-duper lot of money to American libraries and that’s my story and I am sticking to it.ContinueContinue reading “Funny Story from Library School”

SnakeLady Feels All Cha-Ching

I dried the wild-growing peppermint in my garden this year to make tea, thus doubling my life-time food production from one season of tomatoes to one season of tomatoes and one season of peppermint. Yield this year is approximately 4 mugs of which I am very, very proud. I made my own TEA. My ownContinueContinue reading “SnakeLady Feels All Cha-Ching”

Last Night’s Dream

Last night I dreamed I was going back to grad school. And I was a guy, who wore powder blue sweat suits. Also, I had a baby, about 6 months old (a boy), and a friend of mine who was also going back to school had a baby about six months old (a girl) andContinueContinue reading “Last Night’s Dream”