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Food
Baked Apples With Apple Cider Carmel Sauce And Whipped Cream Have you ever thought about the fact that we have an emotional attachment to foods that directly correlates to when it is harvested? For example, in the spring, especially for Easter dinner we think of eating tender asparagus, just like the 4th of…
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In the Wild!
The Fox Last month, I shared my neighbor, Lois Robertshaw’s photograph of an eagle in her backyard, that then flew into ours. This month, I want to show you our mutually shared fox! We have all spotted him; he has been coming around for awhile, but this is the first picture I have…
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The Dialogue
Vamos Todos a Leer Cartilla In oh so many ways, I am my Mother’s daughter. I was going through some of my Mother’s books, and I ran across this booklet, that I remember her using to teach various people Spanish, since I was a child. I soon decided that I should share this…
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In Nature
Cotton I spent my freshman and sophomore years of high school in Delano, California; where oddly for only living there two years, we managed to live in two different homes. When I walked to school from the first house, which was on the “right side of the tracks”, I passed a large field…
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Public Square
Winnie-the-Pooh and His Friends At The New York Public Library “If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together . . . there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is even if we…
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A View From the Road
The Sign It is “the” Las Vegas sign. The image was designed in 1959, by Betty Willis, who declined to hold the copyright, as she felt it was a gift to the city; thus it has been photographed by amateur and professional alike, and graced everything from magnets, yes, I have one, to…
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Holiday’s
Tea House I know I am a little behind, in welcoming autumn this year. I am not ready; yes I have put out the appropriate decorations, and whether I want them to or not, the foliage is changing, and the leaves are falling. But since this move to New England, my love of…
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Art
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ James Abbott McNeill Whistler by Coast of Brittany (Alone with the Tide) I love being surprised by an artist work; I would not have imagined this to be a piece by Whistler,…
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Connected
Cryptocurrency Most people, who know me, know I love action movies. Thus bank heists fit right in to my genre of films. Whether it is Point Break where the leading character disguises his face as one of the United State Presidents or Inside Man, a brilliantly executed hostage situation, or Swordfish which steals…
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From the Editor
NFL: Adopt an Intern On my private social media, I posted an article regarding boycotting the NFL. A person who I genuinely love and respect that is I guess ‘family in-law’, responded to my post with a very sincere and thoughtful comment; I took no offense at her words, but I did feel that she…
