Category: What I Find Fascinating

Yesterday at 2:15 am

What Is Indomitable

It was a chill November morning—1970… We lived in the Serra Retreat—a small secluded canyon that was part of the original Malibu land grant. I came out our front door to tuck an outgoing letter in our mailbox up on…

9 Jan at 6:02 pm

“The Best Ever” Sour Cream Blueberry Make-Ahead Pancakes

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…

29 Dec 2024

How I Roasted Our Holiday Turkey to Perfection…

In the Kitchen, at the Table

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Quick background: my Thanksgiving turkey was terrible. I roasted it at the now-fashionable high temperature (450 degrees) and even though I’d brined it, taken every precaution, it was dry. Christmas dinner would be for ten, family from near and far…

19 Dec 2024

A Ginger Cake of Boundless Virtues

From the Past, In the Kitchen, at the Table

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Dear Readers, I posted this last spring … 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 to bake…

10 Dec 2024

Marvelous Vegetable-Soup-in-Balance

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…

3 Dec 2024

What I learned from my Thanksgiving dinner…

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

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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…

26 Nov 2024

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 2024

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 2024

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 2024

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…