Category: Looking Over My Shoulder

21 Jul at 7:29 pm

Plenty of Stairs to Climb

Bill and I are profoundly grateful for President Joe Biden’s selflessness, heroism. After weeks of struggling—wishing, denying, shoving aside, hiding under the covers—his better angels embraced him with love and whispered sweet meaningfuls in his ear—and in Dr. Jill’s ear…

14 Jul at 4:17 pm

The Professor’s 4-Ingredient Supper

A View from My Seventies, 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…

8 Jul at 4:32 pm

Two Ripe White Peaches

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…

2 Jul at 11:49 pm

Comfort Me with Chanterelles

A View from My Seventies, Musings

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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…

23 Jun at 8:11 pm

The Restorative Powers of Getting Away

A View from My Seventies, Around and About, 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…

16 Jun at 10:51 pm

On Not Buying Local

A View from My Seventies, Musings

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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…

10 Jun at 4:35 pm

Some Cookie!

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

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Tonight I thought of Charlotte the spider spinning in her web praise of her friend Wilbur the pig: “Some Pig!” Well, that’s how I feel about the cookies I baked today. They are Some Cookies! I created this recipe in…

4 Jun at 2:26 pm

The Romeo-and-Juliets of Flavor

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 to appear.…

23 May at 6:28 pm

New Wrinkles…and A Tasty disappointment

A View from My Seventies, 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 to appear.…

13 May at 5:26 pm

Dazzling News from Out of the Blue

Around and About, News

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Directly across the street from us live Lori and Ed Chun, lawyers both, parents of two great kids. When we were away, small Max watered the garden for us, younger Jenny picked up our newspapers if I’d forgotten vacation cancel.…