writing
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Inspired Eating
When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is. Alice Waters Here is my guilty secret. I don’t like to cook. When my sons were still at home, I prepared meals seven days a week. Just basic everyday…
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Days Gone By
The Past Weeks “He sat quietly for a moment, lost in what was now and forever the past. The scene he described would never be repeated. That overheard sound would never be heard again.” Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery My desktop computer died a slow and anguished death. A couple of weeks ago, I realized,…
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Searching for Truth
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Wallace Stevens My process for writing my blog post each week is always the same. I approach it as though I were a journalist. On Wednesday, I write a rough draft and the next day I polish it and post it by the Thursday deadline.…
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Seasons of Change
I’m awfully interested in how big things begin. You know how it is; you’re twenty-one or twenty-two and you make some decisions…then whissh! you’re seventy. You’re a lawyer for fifty years and that white-haired lady by your side has eaten over 50,000 meals with you. How do such things begin? Thornton Wilder, Our Town Today…
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Treasured People and Books
Grandparents can be very special resources. Just being close to them reassures a child, without words, about change and continuity, about what went before and what will come after. Fred Rogers Seeing Queen Elizabeth brought back memories of my grandmother. They both had a sparkle in their eyes that was reassuring. You knew when you…
Aging with Grace 