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Consume, Produce, Go Out, Stay Home
TV and other media have learned to suggest with increasing subtlety and callousness--especially, and most wickedly, to children--that it is better to consume than to produce, to buy than to grow or make, to "go out" tha… -
Living in a Foreign Language
Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy details the adventures of Michael Tucker and wife Jill Eickenberry in Umbria. This book has so many parallels to Frances Mayes' Under the Tu… -
Simple Gifts in May - The Late Edition
~ May means lilacs and asparagus. I love lilacs from afar (my husband is allergic). I enjoy asparagus close up. Yesterday a friend fixed it with butter and brown sugar. I admit that sounds a bit different. But i… -
Pull Ourselves Together
The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things-- praying, working, tea… -
How to Cook a Wolf
"Nothing seems particularly grim if your head is clear and your teeth are clean and your bowels function properly." The problem is how to characterize How to Cook a Wolf. ~ It is a cookbook, but one with o… -
Unfathomable
"A fathom," he showed me stretching wide in his black three-piece suit and silver watch chain, "is the measure of the arms across the body from fingertip to fingertip because fathom, or a word like it, faethm, w… -
Third World, Cheerios and Little Things
Here are a few tasty morsels that I've relished in my reading: The world came apart into three segments -- the "First World: of free market trading nations, the "Second World," or Communist bloc, and the economicall… -
The Herb of Grace
After Hitler, Churchill, D-Day, Band of Brothers, Pearl Harbor, staggering holocaust memoirs -- heaviness and grief -- it was time for a change. My son is hacking, coughing, aching ... and just needs to rest. I'm … -
Wisdom in My Inbox
I don't know how you manage yours, but the state of my inbox often mirrors the state of my fridge. It all revolves around your definition of fresh. I don't always often send fresh responses the way I'd like to. Perio… -
Savoring Life, Wondering Child
This savoring of life is no small thing. The element of wonder is almost lost today with the onslaught of the media and gadgets of our noisy world. To let a child lose it is to make him blind and deaf to the be…
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