Until We Land on the Moon
Today, let’s talk about the vacation you never take. Oh, you dream of this place — the beautiful blue water […]
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06, 2015
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06, 2015
Give Me a Pill
Maybe you’re one of those people who gets a hangnail and it’s just a hangnail, nothing complicated. […]
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05, 2015
Traveling on the Botany Bay Cruise Line
It’s not a boat you want to get on. […]
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03, 2015
The Revenge of Bacon
Do you think you will meet your long-gone pets after you die? Do you hope you will? I do, at least in the case of Trouble. He was an orange tuxedo cat, handsome as a movie star, loving as a baby, tolerant beyond belief of children who wouldn’t stop carrying him around like a sack of flour. In the case of Butterscotch, not so much. [...]
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02, 2015
The Medieval Bowl
And how did your big game go? Did anybody get raped, pillaged, trampled under a horse, burned with torches, locked away in a cold isolation cell, anything like that? Oh, wait. Wrong game. You’ve been hearing all about the Super Bowl while I’ve been munching on tail-gater food, absorbed in the Medieval Bowl. Who's playing? Well, it's the Monks vs. the Earls. Mini Muffulettas [...]
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01, 2015
Mushrooms with Marshmallows
We were all about hot comfort food tonight. We sizzled chicken to a perfect brown. We tossed mushrooms around in hot butter. […]
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09, 2014
Good-Bye Plan A
I listened to a lot of southern accent this week. So I had no trouble hearing John Grisham's Ford County characters in my head.Ford County is a short story collection, heavy on lawyers because, as I think we all know, Grisham was one before he made it big in book world.His tales, set in Clanton, Mississippi, introduce us to a disgruntled plaintiff, to an unambitious [...]
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07, 2014
Big Bucks Homework
At my age, I should be beyond dreaming that I'll be a ballerina or an astronaut when I grow up. But Michael Connelly's The Brass Verdict has got me imagining that I can be a dandy defense lawyer someday.That may be a weakness in his story.His protagonist, Mickey Haller, stepped away from his law practice for awhile. Something about getting hooked on pills. Then a [...]
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06, 2014
Give Me Some Connecticut Banality
This is a tale of missed opportunities. Evidently, CHICKEN ORIENTAL SALAD is so good that if you don't hunt down the leftovers promptly, it will be too late.2 chicken breast halves 2 TB slivered almonds, toasted or not as desired* 1/2 head cabbage, finely chopped, about 4 cups (I used a 16-oz. bag of coleslaw mix.)1 pkg (3 oz.) Ramen oriental noodles, chicken flavor 1 TB sugar 1/2 cup [...]
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06, 2014
Scalloped Nerves
Oh, sure, of course I got out my little watermelon-sculpting knife and created this scalloped beauty, which I pridefully carried to the family picnic yesterday.Ha. No. It traveled to the picnic in an ordinary Rubbermaid bin. Though it would have been easier, I tell you, to cut that shell and each little melon ball, too, using rusty nail clippers, than it was to get this [...]