Category: Musings

20 May at 5:34 pm

A Ginger Cake of Boundless Virtues

From the Past, In the Kitchen, at the Table

Dear Readers, I posted this in spring of 2025 … thinking about Easter. Here I am thinking of it again, a cake for all celebrations … Bake it and you’ll agree! As a matter of fact, it’s the ideal cake…

12 May at 8:05 pm

“Some Rose!!!”

Around and About, What I Find Fascinating

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There is an extraordinary rose bush bordering a garden in our neighborhood—I pass it every time we go out—that drives me crazy. It is in tree form—one shoulder-high stalk exploding in a voluptuous armload of buttery-gold-apricot roses as ripe as…

26 Apr at 6:29 pm

“Don’t look back…something might be gaining on you…”

From the Past, Musings

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Cleaning up my study (yes, really and truly) I opened a notebook I’ve kept for ages, but haven’t opened for ages. There tucked in front was a treasured clipping from forty-four years ago. Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige began in Negro…

16 Apr at 9:42 pm

Brush It Off!

Musings

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Here’s a brilliant insight I just learned, simple, direct, pain-lightening. I’ll begin with the context: I am the most fortunate woman on the planet. I have a heavenly husband who loves and sustains me. I have a wealth of children,…

9 Apr at 10:25 pm

Bill at 96 and Michael Connelly

Musings, Update

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Bill at 96 and Michael Connelly Last Monday (sixth of April) we celebrated a glorious landmark in the family: my darling husband’s NINETY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY! Wowzer. As Bill mentioned a few times (rather in awe), that means he has lived ninety-six…

27 Mar at 3:19 pm

Panini for Lunch Guests! Straordinario~

In the Kitchen, at the Table, Musings

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When we have a friend coming for lunch, that morning Bill will sweetly inquire, “Will you be making those great sandwiches I hope?” I will. Make panini! Some years ago—maybe twenty—on the radio I heard an interview with Candace Bergen…Talking…

20 Mar at 3:02 pm

“The Invisible Hand” Now In The Big World…

Musings, Update

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So we finished—I mean, after two years (first date of files “Characters” and “Story” is April 14, 2024) and three passes of editing—our tragi-comic novel, The Invisible Hand… Um, I emailed it to the editor/friend who generously asked to see…

11 Mar at 7:06 pm

Beautiful Indonesian Soup with Chinese Cabbage (Ideal for Vegans)

In the Kitchen, at the Table, Musings

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Anticipating a special friend coming for lunch—a Vegan–but preoccupied working on THE LAST CHAPTERS of our novel…what to make him? I found a soup in my Kitchen Garden Cookbook that looked possible. Our guest’s wife is Japanese so clearly Asian…

1 Mar at 6:43 pm

Day in the Life…

Doing My Best, Musings

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As this collection is meant to represent what it’s like being ninety, today I’m adding a short but painful piece. My second son, Benjamin and his wife, Ella, have moved to Israel…Ella was born there, and the two live in…

19 Feb at 5:37 pm

A Rare Man…

Musings

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When Bill and I met over the phone via my daughter’s article he happened to read in the local newspaper, my husband of forty-six years had been dead nine years. But Bill’s wife of fifty-two years had died just three…