Like many noncooks, I have a distinct yearning for the taste of yester-year. Martha has compiled a cookery book of recipes that appeal to our palette as well as our memories. I hate recipes where I have to know what is what and where to find it and which wine to serve with it. All of Martha’s recipes are simple and the ingredients easy to find. I wish I had read this book when I was young. I got married at 18 and didn’t know how to boil [...]
The world had never been kind to lovers. Those who have fallen in love unwisely have often met with the most horrifying acts of cruelty, even death. From the middle ages and right up to the present day, we read of those who have suffered at the hands of disapproving parents, whose anger had spurred them to terrible acts of violence and murder. My story this week concerns two such lovers, but it is not the classic boy meets girl tale. [...]
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
She arrived to find the teahouse packed. She hesitated inside the entrance looking around for any man with dark hair wearing a navy sweater and grey slacks.
Chapter 3: Excerpts from Sculpting the Heart’s Poetry, Conversing with the Masters Ekphrasis poetry like mine makes an excellent conversation between two pieces of art. I want to thank Picasso, Chagall, and all the other artists I partner with in my work. Most of us get a kind of emotional fuel from looking at the art of past. They kind of give us a foundation to build our dreams on. There is no such thing as writer’s block when we use [...]
The hour is late and the wicker is fading The world fast asleep, Hydref has begun Alone I sit with my thoughts quickening And with my new quill let the ink run I charted the stars a few weeks ago Looking for signs, for omens for hope The Sibyls came out in the sky low Pointing to Rome, and to the Teutonic Pope Tourmaline and Marigold shine in the light Of my meandering mind, I nod off, pause My hand stops in what [...]
In the United Kingdom back in the previous mid century, humour was a mix of slapstick and double entendre, raw humour unfettered by politically correct constraints, unlike today. In my childhood I looked forward to the weekly Goon Show on radio, starring the brilliantly surreal Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and the absolute master and my personal favourite – Peter Sellars. Then when television took over, we all laughed out loud [...]
A Sicilian, upstairs talked different from
mother downstairs, but I cherished both. . .
I did not vanish when I had to ride a
borrowed bike – or smile when a cousin
near the border of Vermont – gave me another. . .
I loved country rides on back roads.
What would you do if someone were cooking up meth in your backyard? What would you do to stop it and how far would you go? Drug cartels do more than just sell, create, profit and make their own drugs. Their leaders are dangerous and their henchman even more. In 1985 Master Sergeant Fuentes proved to be equally as dangerous by executing, planning and orchestrating a plan to bring down the major drug cartel family on their home ground. [...]
You are alive and well after so many years so many wars wars wrongful ways of tearing nations you fought for our nation years gone by you alive alert amazed you, fought through several wars scoreboards are not raised for you, yet should be a hero of our nation you stand today fighting for freedoms sake; selfless in your storms storms brought sunshine to many faces using only your face and kindness [...]
