Dual Colds
Marti and I both have colds; I’ve been nursing one for months, and was almost better before our Christmas trip. Marti got a cold (mine?) while traveling back from North Carolina (5 hours on a plane from Detroit to Phoenix = torment of Hades). Since we left at 7 a.m. and I was [...]
A Beautiful Article
Marti posted this article about Modern Love on his Twitter; it is a very nice read and worth reposting here.
Anyone who has been married for a long time starts to feel like a soldier surrounded by heavy casualties. In graduate school, a couple who married when we did failed to make it through a year. [...]
Happy Holidays from all of us
Merry Christmas From The Family by Robert Earl Keen
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When you point your finger…
Here’s an excerpt from a recipe site I was at, looking for pancake recipes (emphasis mine).
Here’s the original recipe:
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking [...]
Quote of the Day:
“Cash is king; I just wish the king was bigger.’’ The Boston Globe ran a story on the number of people giving cash this holiday season rather than purchasing gifts; notably, a credit union in New Hampshire offered a “Black Friday” 3-month CD with a 10% return and sold 20 times the normal daily [...]
Photographs of a planet
I cannot emphasize how cool HiRISE stuff is or how amazing the photographs of Mars are; it makes me wonder how it would feel to step onto another planet; to see the sun and the stars in a completely different way; to live without our moon. I read a lot of fantasy/science fiction and I [...]