March 2025

What I’ve been reading, watching, making, and otherwise doing for the past month!

In March, I spent most of my free time puttering around in the kitchen and quite honestly just binge-watching The Golden Girls… but I did also do a few productive things — I participated in a couple of genealogy-related mini-events and went to a work conference in Austin.

Books + Media | Arts + Crafts | Food + Health

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Books + Media

Finished

Books

• Audiobook – Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963
• Audiobook – Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
• Audiobook – Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, 1954
• Book – The Perfectly Imperfect Home by Deborah Needleman, 2011
• Theater – Lysistrata by Aristophanes, 411 BC
• Theater – Medea by Euripides, 431 BC

Media

• Movie – Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl starring Orland Bloom, Johnny Depp, and Keira Knightly, 2003
• Movie – Some Like it Hot starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe, 1959

In progress

Books

• Book – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain, 1889

Media

• TV series – Black Sails starring Luke Arnold, Toby Stephens, et al. 2014–2017
• TV series – The Golden Girls starring Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White 1985–1992
• Podcast — You’re Wrong About hosted by Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes, 2018–TBD

Reviewed

I somehow flubbed the last two scheduled posts this month — apologies to the subscribers who accidentally got multiple posts in your inbox yesterday!

• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Fiction, print)
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Fiction, print)
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Fiction, print)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Fiction, print)
• Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (Fiction, print)

Arts + Crafts

Nothing this month (again)!

Food + Health

Finished

Cooking

I am currently sharing more about my cooking hobby on a separate blog/newsletter — Eats + Makes

Dining + Drinks

• Wine tasting project – Wine Folly by Madeline Puckette, 2015
  Ancient Vine Zinfandel from Oak Ridge; Lodi, California
• Wine tasting project – Wine Folly by Madeline Puckette, 2015
  Chenin Blanc Grand Reserve from Bougrier; Vouvray, Loire, France

• Dined out — Lutie’s in Austin, Texas

Fitness

• Walking, 22 hours (66.25 miles)
• The Conqueror “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” series, “The Gorn” section — 100 total miles
• The Conqueror “Star Trek: The Next Generation” series, “Data vs Lore” section — 48.75 total miles

In progress

Cooking

• Cookbook cook-thru project – Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis, 2023
• Cookbook cook-thru project – Dining In by Alison Roman, 2017
• Cookbook cook-thru project – The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt, 2015
• Cookbook cook-thru project – Methodist Morsels by the Cookbook Committee of the First United Methodist Church of Lamesa, Texas, 1983
• Cookbook cook-thru project – Pirate’s Pantry by the Junior League of Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1976
• Cookbook cook-thru project – Cook’s Illustrated All-Time Best French Recipes, […] Hot and Spicy Recipes, […] Side Dish Recipes special eds., 2018
• Magazine clippings cook-thru project

Dining + Drinks

• Wine tasting project – Wine Folly by Madeline Puckette, 2015

Fitness

• The Conqueror “Star Trek: The Next Generation” series, “Data vs Lore” section
• The Conqueror “Conquer 2025” annual challenge

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