correction --

Oops! This is what I get for typing fast and not having Gay here to check my blog . . . . I wrote

“I took the T out to Hell & Gone, also known as Waban, where Ellen Seigel (who
was also one of Ricky’s poets) picked me up with her hubbie Ron, and we drove
out to Mary’s, somewhere near the planet Neptune, or perhaps Carlisle. Perhaps
I exaggerate the distances. For these three months while I’m a city mouse,
anything past Somerville requires a native guide and beaters.

Ricky’s widow Dolores came with her daughter Lucy, whom I hadn’t met. All of
us wordmongers of one sort or another – Mary is a serious technical writer as
well as a poet, and works part-time at the MIT Writing Center, like Gay.

Mary’s a great cook. Pork tenderloin with coconut rice and roasted winter vegetables.
She also made a deliciously sinful appetizer, a simple dip with equal parts
shredded cheddar cheese, grated parmesan, and mayonaisse, dusted with paprika
and baked in a medium oven for half an hour. Ooh. Have to make it for New
Year’s Eve. (“You can walk in the door, but you’ll have to waddle out.”)

But Mary found, oh-just-a-few mistakes in those 176 words – how could I have missed the onion? –


Hi Joe, So glad you could come and that you enjoyed yourself.

A few corrections to the blog, just because I don’t want mistakes circulating on the internet.
Ellen’s husband is Don, not Ron.
I don’t work in the Writing Center, I worked (past tense because I’m retired now) for the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, or, more specifically, the Writing Across the Curriculum, but not the writing center.

the appetizer was mayonnaise, mozzarella, and chopped onion, 1 to 1 to 1, with a bit of romano added. the original recipe says cheddar instead of mozz. baked 350 for 45 minutes.

the vegetables were not roasted. it was carrots and apricots, boiled, and spiced.