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Sunday, February 12, 2017

What's for breakfast?

Breakfast is a cultural thing. The Hearty American Breakfast derives from the first meal of a farmer's day, eaten after the cows were milked and livestock fed and watered. There was oatmeal with plenty of thick cream and maple sugar. There were fried potatoes, and the golden buckwheat cakes, as many... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 6, 2017

Elsa's Library

My daughter. Elsa's mum, has asked friends and relatives this question: What books do you most remember and hold precious from your childhood? For me, it was Winnie the Pooh and all the related books by AA Milne, and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and a little later, Laura Ingalls Wilder's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 6, 2017

Journey Prep II

What do you do before a trip to prepare for your home-coming? I have been clearing the perishables from my fridge and cupboards this week, freezing what I can't eat. The plan is to make the house clean and welcoming with fresh sheets on the bed and random things put away. Charlie has said he will... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 5, 2017

Journey Prep

How soon do you start getting yourself and your stuff ready for a trip? For me, it starts with a surge of anxiety, especially if I have to have my passport, and am not at that moment certain where it is. That hits when I realize I have less than a month to find it, and not lose it again. It is the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Whatchamacallits

Soda, pop, sodapop, cola, seltzer... Couch, divan, sofa, settee... Purse, handbag, bag... Sack, bag, parcel... So many words for essentially the same things, without even significantly different nuances of meaning! These are words we grew up with, words we use out of habit and familiarity that are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

What's your recipe for fending off a cold?

After a more or less full night's sleep, I started with a cup of hot lime 'tea' instead of coffee and a zinc troche dissolving slowly, bathing my throat it its goodness until I stop resisting the impulse to bite on it and chew it to smithereens. It doesn't usually take long. Later, some actual tea... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Prompt: What are you still laughing about?

When I was visiting my daughter in England a year and a half ago, we were walking alongside a field of grazing cattle. There were a quantity of roundish objects scattered across the field. I asked my daughter, "Are those turnips?" She replied with great patience, "No, Mom, those are cows." I still... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Speaking of...

...the Wilds! Not everyone, of course, loves nature in the raw, but I am wondering, What natural landscape or locale affects you soul-deep or even just simply relaxes you, lets you let go of worries, or helps you think about things you need to think about? Do you find that far off from pavement and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 3, 2016

Birthdays Prompt:

What are the best things about growing older? There are plenty of words written about the downside of aging, and I don't want to hear any of that today! My list starts with: Having let go of a lot of things that used to irritate, buttons that used to be too-easily pushed, other peoples' opinions and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 23, 2016

No, really, what do you really think?

This started with TAPS' and my exchange of comments in my blog about the evil that is politics. I believe there are the sane and the deranged on both sides, that there are liberal and progressive values that would make the world better for a lot of people, and worse for some. I believe there are... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Kitchen is always a place of warmth--sometimes too warm--and gratifications, of indulgences, clever solutions, and occasional disasters. It is a place of recipes and experimentation. This blog is going to be hanging out in the kitchen for a while.

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