I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love pie. The crust is my favorite part. But, it’s loaded with hydrogenated oils (if you buy the easy refrigerated kind) or lard, if you let Aunt Joyce make one of her awesome crusts. She has a way of molding the dough in her hands… [...]
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On birthdays, and sometimes for special nights — but mostly on birthdays, an Angel Food Cake always graces our table. I think the tradition started, or evolved, because I have never liked cake — preferring pie instead. But my mom always insisted that I have cake. So, the Angel Food cake, sweeter than pie, but [...]
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Will there be enough wooden clothespins to hold my cherished memories? Memories of our years at the lake captured in black and white, strung on gardener’s twine and stretched across a window that does not present a view of the lake. Will there be enough window space as the years add up, and the pile [...]
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It’s football time already. Tonight, a Thursday of all days, is actually is the first game. Traffic was crazy just moving two miles this afternoon. Although the weather is hardly cozy-time (temperatures are soaring into the 90s) I am yearning to make this dip for the boys, and set them down with a bowl of [...]
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Before the sun sets today, I’d like to live within the parameters of today’s minutes, hours and seconds. Lately, this has proved to be an insurmountable task. Maybe Brownies will help me get there. Today, at 11:30, I will pick up my newly minted Freshman at the high school to have his cast removed. Although, [...]
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