Category: Around and About

3 Dec at 12:54 pm

What I learned from my Thanksgiving dinner…

A View from My Seventies, From the Past, In the Kitchen, at the Table, Taking Stock

Gentle Reader, While I’m closeted writing a novel I hope you’ll enjoy reading, it’s been suggested I post pieces from earlier years … years when I was freshly widowed, living in or near L.A. with my dog, waiting for Bill…

26 Nov at 4:33 pm

A Happy Thanksgiving Indeed…

Musings, Taking Stock

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Dear Friends…Readers…Those who wonder who on earth I am… As I write this, a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah is being announced. We have a son and daughter-in-law living in Tel Aviv. Naturally their well-being has been uppermost in our…

20 Nov at 7:47 pm

Ajvar!

A View from My Seventies, From the Past, In the Kitchen, at the Table

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Gentle Reader, While I’m closeted writing a novel I hope you’ll enjoy reading, it’s been suggested I post pieces from earlier years … years when I was freshly widowed, living in or near L.A. with my dog, waiting for Bill…

12 Nov at 7:28 pm

Sabbatical–Sort of

Aging Ain’t for Sissies, Musings

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Dear Ones, I am a wreck. Yes, the blow of the election first…but now absorbing How It’s Going to Be is really taking its toll… I ask my Trumpian friends please to pardon this point of view if it offends.…

5 Nov at 6:39 pm

Transitions

Musings

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I write this early Tuesday afternoon—November 5th, THE BIG DAY, the day we’ve been anticipating for months and months. Obviously the future of our country hangs in the balance. Around 4:00 o’clock this afternoon, the first voting places in the…

27 Oct at 5:33 pm

Helping Preserve America the Incomparable

News, Taking Stock

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Bill isn’t sleeping, I’m barely sleeping…so worried. No election in history ever with so much at stake… Haven’t done the volunteering I planned I’d do. Won’t bore you with the reasons (but yes, age and time are factors). Trying to…

20 Oct at 8:20 pm

Mother Nature’s Magical Palette

Around and About, In the Kitchen, at the Table

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If someone told you there are magic foods from Mother Nature that are not only among the most delectable she makes but help to improve brain health and memory, lower blood pressure, and reduce the risk of stroke and heart…

15 Oct at 8:43 pm

Son of “In Praise of Green Tea”

In the Kitchen, at the Table, Looking Over My Shoulder

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This morning there was a piece in The New York Times*: ”Is green tea really ‘nature’s Ozempic’?” (The latter—should you not watch television—is the new magic potion for losing weight.) The answer to the question was “unclear.” But apparently green…

8 Oct at 1:54 am

Maybe Once In A Lifetime…

Musings

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Maybe once in a lifetime you’ll have a friend who, when you’re out of other options, will pick you up at 5:30 a.m. and drive you to the hospital for a 6:00 a.m. surgical appointment… then will hang around with…

29 Sep at 11:37 pm

Ah, Maggie, You Have Taken Your Leave Too Soon!

Musings

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Ah, Maggie, like your brilliant colleague before you, Glenda Jackson, you have taken your leave too soon! Eighty-nine is too young (take it from one who knows firsthand…). I can’t bear the thought your work is finished. Reading Dame Maggie…