Projects

I guess it’s apparent that I like dishes and birds and dead people.

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Corn Pudding: Thanksgiving Success

As you may have read in a previous entry, we went a little crazy with the food this year. Here was the final menu: Turkey Stuffing Gravy Rolls Brussels Sprouts Maple Glazed Sweet Potatoes Baked Mashed Potatoes Corn Pudding Cranberry Sauce Pumpkin Pie Christmas Galette We made so much food, that after we had all [...]

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

I visited Marianne this past weekend: brought her some Thanksgiving leftovers, took some Christmas pictures of her for her annual Christmas card, watched a wonderful 25-minute Christmas Carol and went to “Christmas Town” at Busch Gardens. It was a perfect start to the Christmas season, and I wish the weekend were longer. Here are some [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

My mom’s pies are almost done, the turkey is being put in the oven, and my cranberry sauce is on the stove, boiling away. First, a little something somber: George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be [...]

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Three thoughts

1. I am most inspired to write after 10:00. It’s true. Sometimes I can’t sleep because the words are swimming around in my head–but ask me to write a blog entry during the day, and it comes out mush. 2. Tonight my mother started reading snippets from “The Beauty of Life” to me in rapturous [...]

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The Beauty of Life

A couple years ago, while visiting Marianne, I purchased an ugly chartreuse book of E.M Forster essays in a used bookshop. Forster is one of my very favorite authors, and I immediately opened up the book and started reading snippets aloud. “The Beauty of Life” was one essay I read in whole, and then read [...]

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Song for a Sunday

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Posts to come…

Marianne chided me tonight for not having posted recently. I am still alive. I know I need to write about the last few days of our trip and post pictures, so here’s a rundown on what I have not ever posted about, not even in the “pre-planning” stages. Was anyone curious what they were missing? [...]

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“Do You Think I’m Elitist?”

It was a rare night with the television to myself, and an episode of “Frasier” came on.  This opening exchange made me laugh out loud: Act 1 Scene 1 – Cafe Nervosa Fade in. Niles is sitting at a table, Frasier is ordering at the counter. Frasier: Cranberry muffin, please. And, uh… a vanilla latte. [...]

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Diana Barry’s Chicken Salad

I named this recipe because every time I make it I think of Diana saying wistfully, “I wish I were rich, and could spend the summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad.”  Elinor thought I was referring to my own gluttony.  What can I say?  It’s that good. For a few years [...]

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