Shannon Costello

Task: Transfer just-made pizza dough to hot pizza stone for immediate baking
Previous tries: never attempted
Little-known fact: pizza dough is about as tough to handle as pie crust
Results (short version): Domestic tragedy
Results (longer version):
1)  pepperoni on floor between counter and refrigerator
2)  pizza landscape resembling aftermath of major earthquake, with sauce boiling along major [...]

I want the fun of being right or wrong later, so I’ll go ahead and put it in writing.  
Despite rumors of the Bradley effect and Obama’s warning that Democrats could still “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,”  McCain’s higher-risk campaign stuck it’s neck out too far.  
Error # 1:  Demeanor.  Contrast Obama’s calm [...]

The winner of the women’s marathon was 38.  
American Dara Torres, 41,  won a silver medal in swimming.  They were asking her how she would describe this to her two-year old daughter when she was old enough to appreciate this.  
Hurray for women who achieve great things after 35!!!  

I use my bread machine to make calzone or pizza dough.  The paddle attachments mix and knead while the machine itself provides a great environment for the dough to rise.  
One hour before dinner time I opened the bread machine to discover that I had forgotten to put the paddles in.  There was a small [...]

Maria von Trap - the real one, not Julie Andrews - wrote about her family’s struggle to “make it” as a singing group in the US.  Their somber clothing led to some criticism that Maria did not understand, presumably leading her to march into a bookstore and unintentionally frighten off the clerk with her (completely [...]

The paths of Columbia were a bit crowded during our bike ride yesterday.
One family of non-native English speakers was a bit startled as we came whizzing out of a tunnel. They scrambled off the path and one of the smaller children said, “Sorry!” in heavily-accented English. I had thanked them in [...]

I fell down on my way to the starting line- tripped while stepping on a sidewalk and splatted full-length on the ground. Free entertainment.
The long lines at the port-a-potties before the race may have contributed to the lines at port-a-potties along the race route.
I may have beaten last year’s time [...]

Like the song, I got up at 12 pm on Monday. But unlike the song, I did not start to work at one. In fact I frittered most of the day away. (I am just a person that needs to have a regular job or I unravel.)
The best kind of [...]