Christiana Aretta writes a journal about food, photography, & toys.

Posts Tagged ‘creativity’

Mac-n-cheese cupcakes, potato salad, green bean casserole, marshmallow fruit salad, jello molds, 7-layer bars, and more hotdogs wrapped in a bacon than you can shake a fork at.

Gingerbread cookies, tetris-style.

I’ve been involved with the planning of Social Justice Camp DC for the past couple of the months. Last week, we had our planning meeting at my house, complete with meat and vegetarian chilis, mixed greens, and spiced apple crumble. And about a billion varieties of chips. Note to self: If you’re going to invite [...]

2003 Nobel Prizewinning chemist Peter Agre, introducing his presentation at TEDxMidAtlantic.

Stayed up late at the computer, crawled into bed, got comfy and saw this through the window. (Sleep? Never heard of it!)

As a kid, I used to spend summer vacation at my grandmother’s house. She lived alone in a narrow rowhouse filled with old furniture, Marlboro cigarette smoke and frogs. She adored frogs – she had a brass frog-shaped plate around her doorbell, a concrete frog fountain in her backyard, and a shiny chrome diving frog hood ornament on her 1985 Volkswagen Quantum.