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October 5, 2021
Sorta Minton’s Casserole #Vegetarian
About eleventy-seven years ago, a choir director named David Minton brought a veggie casserole to a Christmas party at the home of a friend we have in common. I loved it, and he gave me the recipe. I shared it here on my Recipals page.…
October 4, 2021
Failure and Success #MarthaWells #Murderbot #MondayRecommends #NailArt
My #2 Daughter gave me a gift certificate to Bookshop.org, where part of every purchase benefits local book stores. As you might suspect, I had no sooner received the certificate than I spent it. I bought the final (so far) Grishaverse duology by Leigh Bardugo,…
October 3, 2021
October 2, 2021
Chickie Loves Mommy #Caturday #TipperAndChickie
HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! Tipper likes to pretend he’s so sweet, but he’s naughty sometimes, too. The other day, Mommy gave me my office treat and then Tipper came wandering in. Mommy put down a treat for him, and he moved r-e-a-l slow and…
October 1, 2021
September 30, 2021
Stomping Grounds #ThursdayDoors
#4 Daughter (the amazing Sara Marian) and I each drove to the fabulous Jeff Wyler Nissan in Louisville (my imaginary car dealer/service establishment boyfriend) so she could drop her car off for service. She had taken it to a different Nissan dealer and had had…
September 29, 2021
How Close? #1LinerWeds
My late mother watched what I think was entirely too much situation comedy television; it made her crack wise, like, ALL the TIME. Sometimes it got a little too much. “Mom,” I would say, “you’re driving me crazy!” To which she would reply, That’s not…
September 28, 2021
Shepherd’s Pie Only Not #NotVegetarian #NotKosher #Treyf #CookingWithLeftovers
So I scored some great thighs at the farmers’ market…. Wait. Let me rephrase. I bought some small-farm-raised chickens’ thighs at the farmers’ market, and I braised them in butter and then simmered them in a sauce of cream of mushroom soup, sliced portobello mushrooms,…
September 27, 2021
FREE STORIES For Halloween #FlashFiction #MondayRecommends #NailArt
Comes now Jack Wallen, spooky fiction author extraordinaire, to present you with a smorgasbord of writers providing a Halloween (or similar) flash fiction story for every day in October! I’ll have one in there somewhere. When I get the URL for my story, I’ll post…
September 26, 2021
Sunday Snapshot – Blast From the Past
First, happy birthday to me! Seventy-one, that’s how. This box and its contents were gathered during the early seventies, when I was in college. I still use these sometimes, although I don’t correspond by paper mail very often. In case you don’t know, those colorful…
