Sencha Skeete Book Blog

This post, once again, has nothing to do with my writing, mostly because I'm simultaneously trying to distract myself and intensely focus on finishing the third book in the "An Arrangement" series.  You create all these obstacles and barriers to keep two people apart and then you have to somehow get them past all of that so they can be happy together.  It's easier in books at any rate. I was watching cooking fail videos with my daughter when we came across the phenomenon of rice-cooker pancakes.  We love pancakes and I'm always looking for something to make the same old foods interesting and new.  I found a couple of cool YouTube videos like this one  here  , and then took a slight detour here , where I learned about Japanese souffle pancakes, which look amazing, but I worry might be eggy.  I don't mind eggy, but my kid hates eggy and will ooh and aww over the look of the food and then refuse to eat it.  The whole point of this exercise is to get ...

I've been a little disappointed this year because I had been looking forward to taking my daughter (5) to see the fireworks.  In prior years we couldn't go for one reason or the other, but I'd decided months ago that this would be the year.  Unfortunately, COVID came around and all the local fireworks shows were cancelled.  Because we live in Los Angeles I thought buying fireworks and doing our own little show was out of the question.  But... My neighbors around the city had other ideas.  Starting around sunset the loud booms started.  I'm used to hearing but not being able to see the fireworks from my house, but my daughter ran in from the back patio and told me she could see fireworks.  We went outside the front of the house and we could see fireworks of every color exploding in the sky to our south and east.  She jumped and squealed in excitement.  We walked down the street a bit to get a better view and I ran into several neighbors out on...