A Ginger Cake of Boundless Virtues
Dear Readers, I posted this last spring … thinking about Easter. Here I am thinking of it again, a cake for all celebrations … Bake it and you’ll agree! As a matter of fact, it’s the ideal cake to bake…
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Marvelous Vegetable-Soup-in-Balance
Gentle Reader, While I’m closeted writing a novel I hope you’ll enjoy reading, it’s been suggested I post pieces from earlier years … years when I was freshly widowed, living in or near L.A. with my dog, waiting for Bill…
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What I learned from my Thanksgiving dinner…
Gentle Reader, While I’m closeted writing a novel I hope you’ll enjoy reading, it’s been suggested I post pieces from earlier years … years when I was freshly widowed, living in or near L.A. with my dog, waiting for Bill…
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A Happy Thanksgiving Indeed…
Dear Friends…Readers…Those who wonder who on earth I am… As I write this, a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah is being announced. We have a son and daughter-in-law living in Tel Aviv. Naturally their well-being has been uppermost in our…
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Sabbatical–Sort of
Dear Ones, I am a wreck. Yes, the blow of the election first…but now absorbing How It’s Going to Be is really taking its toll… I ask my Trumpian friends please to pardon this point of view if it offends.…
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Transitions
I write this early Tuesday afternoon—November 5th, THE BIG DAY, the day we’ve been anticipating for months and months. Obviously the future of our country hangs in the balance. Around 4:00 o’clock this afternoon, the first voting places in the…
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Helping Preserve America the Incomparable
Bill isn’t sleeping, I’m barely sleeping…so worried. No election in history ever with so much at stake… Haven’t done the volunteering I planned I’d do. Won’t bore you with the reasons (but yes, age and time are factors). Trying to…
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Mother Nature’s Magical Palette
If someone told you there are magic foods from Mother Nature that are not only among the most delectable she makes but help to improve brain health and memory, lower blood pressure, and reduce the risk of stroke and heart…
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Son of “In Praise of Green Tea”
This morning there was a piece in The New York Times*: ”Is green tea really ‘nature’s Ozempic’?” (The latter—should you not watch television—is the new magic potion for losing weight.) The answer to the question was “unclear.” But apparently green…
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