If Prince William asks for a groom’s cake to be made from the McVitie’s company, perhaps the little Digestive biscuits I’ve been eating for 20+ years aren’t something to sneer at.
Archive for the ‘Reminiscences’ Category
If I put Prince William’s name in this title, will it count as part of the world-wide buzz?
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Emotions/Inner World, Friendship, Reminiscences, Travel on May 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
More pie, please
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Family, Husbands, Reminiscences, Travel on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other night I was waxing nostalgic about lemon meringue pies. I had made some cookies and for the first time used lemon curd as a filling rather than jam, and the flavor sent me right back to family road trips for lemon meringue pie. Fried perch and then lemon meringue pie, to be exact. […]
Poem for an Old Chum
Posted in Friendship, Poetry, Reminiscences, Writing on March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Asked to write in verse To make long thoughts terse Prose is my genre now Literary essays of how . . . How I imagine How I hope How I dream How I regret How I see within and among and between the lines (to be exact). I’m afraid of poetry, turns out. Early efforts […]
Quake Damage
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Emotions/Inner World, Finery, Natural Disaster, Personal Growth, Reminiscences on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, on my short morning commute, the radio announcer reminded all in his listening domain that it was the 10-year anniversary of a large earthquake that had hit this area. Ten years – really? Well, yes, according to very simple math, it has been ten years since February 28, 2001. But the math and […]
Making Tikis in the Classroom
Posted in Children, Friendship, Reminiscences, School, Writing on January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was back in my son’s classroom, in an after-school effort to help the kids build Tikis as part of their study of Easter Island. His school has an amazing program where the whole school studies one continent a year, each classroom focusing on one country. This culminates in giant classroom projects, a school-wide evening […]