Jennifer Willis

I apparently have an unnecessarily guilty conscience. I seem to expect to have done something wrong, even when I’ve done everything right.

It gives me pause to pass between the electronic security gates at the doors of big computer stores and other retail outlets. Even if I kept my hands inside my coat pockets the entire time I was in the store and literally touched nothing, I’m still nervous that the alarm is going to go off. I don’t know why. If there’s a glitch in a system somewhere, I’ll usually assume that I’m the [...]

At least, that’s what Mike called it when he saw it coming out of the juicer this morning — because the juice is a truly beautiful dark red (leaning toward magenta), and because it’s my birthday today.
Vampire Birthday Juice
4 roma tomatoes
2 beets
2 stalks of celery
3 pinches of spinach leaves
1 kale leaf/stem
1 navel orange
3 carrots

(I’ll post a photo soon.)
The new juicer arrived on Monday, and this was my fifth juice blend since then. We’ve reconfirmed in these past two days that Mike has a much stronger sweet-tooth than I do, and I have to [...]