Holy Hotness, Batman!

It is so bloody hot here my eyes feel hot when I blink. Last I checked it was 104F at 7:30 p.m. That’s evening time, folks. 104F. 7:30 pee emm.
My apologies for not posting in so long again. Alas, I have been galavanting all over the state of Oregon enjoying the fine (hot) weather while [...]

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Ch-ch-changes! And fun with food metaphors…

For those of you not reading this with your new old-folks reading glasses (ahem), you’ll notice that I’ve added some techno-forward socially-webby stuff to my sidebar. I have wanted to do this for a while, but had not yet gotten to it. Alas, there’s no time like the present lunch hour at work!
I’ll do my [...]

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Pearls Redux

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that my essay, “Pearls,” was going to be reprinted by the amazing folks at Menda City Review. Well, their newest issue is now posted and “Pearls” appears in the Commentaries section. Yea! I’m so grateful “Pearls” is enjoying a second life.

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Economical Meats Continues…

Really happy to see this piece in the Times today about economical cuts of meat, along with recipes. Shame they don’t mention tongue or pigs’ feet, but I’m not complaining…I don’t want the prices of those driven up from new popularity!
I’ve ordered my oxtails for this weekend and am looking forward to my first oxtail [...]

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Really Good News

Some days, life is really amazing.
Several weeks ago, totally out of the blue, I got the most incredible letter (e-mail) from the editor of Menda City Review about my essay “Pearls” that appeared in the Winter issue of Redwood Coast Review. He wrote to tell me how much he liked the essay. His note was [...]

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Anne Frank’s Chestnut Tree

Very moving piece in the Times this morning about Anne Frank’s chestnut tree.
I re-read Anne Frank’s diary a couple of years ago. It was such a different experience to read it from the perspective of a near-forty-year-old versus reading it as a teenager in school. Mostly I was shocked that they let young people read [...]

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Happy Easter!

We’re off to get the hot tub and the pig’s feet are in the oven! Even better, this is giving me the opportunity to use the timer feature on our new oven. Yea!

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Easter Trot

So, as you know, I was hoping to do something really different and adventurous for Easter this year. My vision of a spit-roasted Greek lamb in the backyard, however, was just not going to happen because I somehow forgot that we are getting a hot tub tomorrow. Yes, indeedy! We have always talked about getting [...]

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Pizza Night

The past couple of Tuesday nights, The Man has gone out for pizza with his man-friends. And not just to any pizza, but like some of the best pizza he’s ever had (and he’s from a place where he should know). I remember once eating pizza pre-celiac diagnosis and my lips swelling up and blistering [...]

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Decompressing From My OWC Weekend

Wow. W-o-w. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a writing workshop. I forgot just how incredibly intense they can be. I don’t mean people being mean about your writing or anything like that, I just mean it takes a huge amount of psychic/emotional energy to a) write something, b) read it aloud [...]

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