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- Category: A View From My Eighties
- Category: A View from My Seventies
- “The Best Ever” Sour Cream Blueberry Make-Ahead Pancakes
- What I learned from my Thanksgiving dinner…
- Ajvar!
- Have You Ever Grated Raw Beet into A Salad?
- Honeyed Greek Yogurt Panna Cotta* ~ Creamy and Skinny
- Heaven In Your Spoon–Cold Sabayon!*
- A Loud and Brave Little Dog in the Country
- The Professor’s 4-Ingredient Supper
- Two Ripe White Peaches
- Comfort Me with Chanterelles
- The Restorative Powers of Getting Away
- On Not Buying Local
- Some Cookie!
- The Romeo-and-Juliets of Flavor
- New Wrinkles…and A Tasty disappointment
- Category: Aging Ain’t for Sissies
- Let’s Hear It for the Glorious Paramedics with the Santa Cruz Fire Department!!!
- The Trip That Settled Traveling Again?
- The Last Half of How We Spent Saint Patrick’s Day ~ And the Blessings Thereof
- Sabbatical–Sort of
- Panic!
- Valentines for My Life
- The Unraveling of Mrs. Indomitable
- A Funny–No, Not At All Funny–Thing Happened on My Way to Kleftiko
- Me or Peanut Butter?
- Choices
- “Head Erect and Tail Over the Dashboard!”
- Being A Grown-Up
- Perils of Watching A Movie In A Hotel Room…
- On Not Getting Rid of “Stuff”
- Category: Around and About
- Category: Becoming My Own Best Self
- In Praise of–and Gratitude for–Green Tea, 2026
- Aspects of Learning ~ 1
- Lavender Lady
- Bravery and Beauty
- For Yulia and Alexei
- Christmas on a Desert Island?
- With Whipped Cream on Top
- No Strings Attached!
- Coming Back to Myself
- Bricks!
- Onward and Upward!
- Doing A Carole-Herbert
- Dealing with Sudden Change
- How Not to Blame
- Messiness As Art
- Hold On to Your Power!
- A Liberating Idea
- Category: Doing My Best
- Category: From the Past
- A Day on Crete!
- A Ginger Cake of Boundless Virtues
- “Don’t look back…something might be gaining on you…”
- A Wow of A Light Blueberried Polenta Cake after Deborah Madison’s
- Celebrate Spring with A Quintessential Springtime Vegetable Soup
- A Ginger Cake of Boundless Virtues
- Marvelous Vegetable-Soup-in-Balance
- A Ginger Cake of Boundless Virtues
- Serendipity and Living Fossils in Our Garden
- Fire!
- Boxes of Memories
- Mascot in A Hollywood Legend–The Garden of Allah
- Category: In the Kitchen, at the Table
- Summer Entertaining’s Large Luscious Three-Meat Loaf
- Panini for Lunch Guests! Straordinario~
- Beautiful Indonesian Soup with Chinese Cabbage (Ideal for Vegans)
- Fast Easy Yummy Eggs Florentine Weeknight Supper
- Some Years of Brussels Sprouting
- Comfort In Case You’ve Just Suffered A Big Disappointment, Too~
- Checking In ~ End of Summer 2025
- Have You Tasted Sublime Fresh Spinach Lately?
- Oh Horrors! There’s Plastic in Our Salt!
- The Apple of Big Dreams
- A 95th Birthday Party ~ and Taking A Stand
- I Want to Tell you About Superb and Super-Easy Polenta ~ from the Oven!
- Daddy’s Crunchy Cinnamon Toast ~ Circa 1943
- Delectable Bucatini with What Did You Say That Was?
- How I Roasted Our Holiday Turkey to Perfection…
- Son of “In Praise of Green Tea”
- Russ Parson’s Fennel Polpette–Not Another Meatball!
- The Sweet Marriage of Butter-and-Olive Oil
- Sunday Morning’s Soured-Milk Pancakes, the Fluffiest
- Maybe the Best Meatloaf You Ever Et
- Easy Growing the Best Kale Ever!
- Best-You-Ever-Ate-Made-the-Night-Before-(Yeast-Raised)-Waffles ~ Fannie Farmer’s Gift to Sunday Breakfast
- Goodbye Betsy, Halloo India ~
- Drunken French Pears from Elizabeth David
- Tagliatelle Alla Marinara, Wonderful!
- Maybe the Best Pumpkin Pie You Ever Et
- Invaluable Cooking Tools — #1 & #2
- Fine-Grained Blueberry Coffee Cake for the Week-end
- Barbara Kafka and Innovating
- Lemon Marmalade Than Which There Is No Whicher
- Making Vegetable Soup
- Pleasures and Comforts of Ginger
- Yummy Clean-Out-the-Crisper Lentil & Vegetable Stew in Thirty-Five Minutes!
- A World of Incomparable Beans–and No Soaking!
- Arthur Sheekman’s Cinnamon Toast, Circa 1943
- My Father’s Pickled Red Onions–and Carrots
- The Coco Chanel of Carrot Cakes
- Marvelous Easy Fresh-Ginger Cake
- Category: Looking Over My Shoulder
- Category: Musings
- Kindred Spirits ~ New!
- Blessings on My 91st Birthday
- Brush It Off!
- Bill at 96 and Michael Connelly
- “The Invisible Hand” Now In The Big World…
- A Rare Man…
- A noiseless patient spider
- Christmas Beauty in February!
- Love the Old-Fashioned Ritual of Washing My Face!
- Contemplation for the End of a Year–Start of a New One
- Don’t Return That Vessel Empty!
- Approaching “A Further Shore”
- “Turn the volume up!!!”
- Just Checking In…
- My I Love America Morning!
- The Inspiring Jane
- A Happy Accident
- Crazy to Sing!
- My Nights with Harry Bosch
- The Sad Inevitable Jolt ~ When?
- Take Your Choice
- Living in Limbo
- My Uppy Downy Ninetieth Birthday
- A Rewarding Way with Solitaire
- The Pleasures of Dining From A Handmade Vessel
- So How Do You Face Derision?
- Boxes of Memories
- The Triumph and the Defeat… the Huzzahing and the Depressing…The Way It Goes Approaching Ninety~
- What Is Indomitable
- A Happy Thanksgiving Indeed…
- Transitions
- Maybe Once In A Lifetime…
- Ah, Maggie, You Have Taken Your Leave Too Soon!
- The Windhover
- A Painful Stretch of Days
- 18th Century Henry Fielding on 21st Century Dictatorship*
- “Choices:” Hefty Word
- Doing Good By Stealth
- Sixty-Seven Orbits Around the Sun
- Feeling My Age
- Mud Pies for Supper
- Truth and Beauty, Part 1
- A Mother and A Daughter
- Category: News
- A Cinematographer to Keep an Eye on
- You Need to Know About This!
- Helping Preserve America the Incomparable
- And So the Clock Ticks…
- Redemption!
- A Cautionary Tale
- Raised Consciousness
- Awash in Generosity
- Mousy Fellow Mortal
- A Supper for Millennials and Generation Z’s
- The Best Insurance for Not-Being-Left-Alone
- William Park’s Take on The 100 Greatest Films of All Time
- Resources for A Happy and A Merry Caritas
- Filling in the Gap…
- Category: Taking Stock
- Category: Update
- Category: What I Find Fascinating