Jan 4, 2020. 9:00 am People don’t bake meringue pies anymore. Coconut, lemon, or chocolate pies are all covered with whipped cream or chemical whip toppings. These toppings are simple to apply and we are all about simple these days. No — a real meringue pie requires one to whip…

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November 17, 2019 Sunday morning. As an awkward child growing up I could relate to the haunting Janis Ian ballard which is the title, or at least part of the title, of this short musing. A poem set to music, she bemoans not being pretty or popular: “And those of…

5:00 pm Sunday, September 15, 2019. This is my second blog post today. Unusual for me. I have to admit that I felt compelled to write after being “triggered,” the current trend word for being upset, by something I found unpleasant. In my case, it was a post on a…

Sunday, September 15, 2019. 8:22 am I am suffering. It is Sunday morning. I went to make coffee in the hotel coffee maker in my room. Hotel coffee is not great, but it is convenient and gets the job done. I am not such a coffee snob that I cannot…

September 11, 2019. 6:05 am I had started to write a humorous blog this morning about my dad and my brother and guns. I know, it seems disingenuous. And it is. But before I got beyond the title, I remembered what today is. It is hard to believe that eighteen…

8:30 am Sunday, September 8, 2019 Today I read the Sunday edition of the Wall Street Journal. Well, actually, it would be more accurate to say I “perused” parts of the paper. I did not devour it page by page as I remember I used to do after I retrieved…

August 31, 2019 10:00 am The flowers in the picture are called Knock Out Roses. A few years ago they were all the rage. The were sold as disease resistant. Once again the laboratory boys had improved upon the humble wild rose God had created once upon a time. An…

Sunday, August 25, 2019 8 am Today I weigh 242.7 pounds. This is exactly ten pounds less than I weighed on August 11th when I started my Thirty Pounds in Thirty Days Diet. Ten pounds is nothing to sneeze about but, at this rate, reaching thirty pounds by September 9th…