Poorly chosen personalized plate?

After picking up someone at the airport today, I noticed a personalized license plate on a car in front of me. 
  PEDO
The dictionary says it’s a prefix meaning soil or child/children.  Still, it seems an unfortunate choice. 
I suppose it could be someone’s last name too.From a dentally informed commenter:  Pedo could be short [...]

Cream cheese and cucumber cookery

Well, not so much cookery as sandwich assembly.
I signed up to
make cucumber tea sandwiches for a tea. They sound like delightful
little snacks, refreshing. I haven’t had them before, though, so I
looked up a few recipes. Some are simple - just butter spread on bread
and thinly sliced English cucumbers. Others go full-on fancy with
watercress, dill, chives, [...]

Brooklyn’s Kings and Queens

Watched a documentary on tv about the Latin Kings and Queens.  At first, I couldn’t understand what they were chanting en masse.  It was "amor de rey" meaning love to the king.
Had to laugh a bit — I am so gonna be whacked — when King Tone, while under house arrest, compared the electronic [...]

Random ruminations (repeated?)

#1 When I heard the name of the judge in the Moussaoui case - Leonie
Brinkema (and this was quite a few times as the case drew to a close, just from hearing
the news headlines), I think of a stop on the Long Island Rail Road
called Ronkonkoma. I know, they’re not even that much alike. But [...]

Of Mice and Men (and Magazines)

When I subscribe to magazines they end up stacked in unread piles on
the coffee table. One year I signed up for multiple magazines at once
and the many unread issues filled up the car trunk and one file cabinet
drawer at work too.
But when I come across them in waiting
rooms, it’s like finding unexpected treasure and [...]

DMC documentary.

I’ve
always been fascinated by the topic of adoption, though I have no
personal experience with it. So when I came across DMC: My adoption
journey one night while flipping channels, I had to watch it. I
enjoyed it too, even though it felt incomplete. We don’t learn who is
the birth father of Daryl "DMC" McDaniel or more about [...]

Sweet as sugar substitute.

Went to see Rich Cohen read from and talk about his book Sweet and Low:  A Family Story.  He came out on the stage wearing a suit with a tie the exact same shade of pink as the little paper packets that contained the sugar substitute invented by his grandfather.  Sometimes real stories are better [...]