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Category Archives: Family

After years of working in food retail I automatically start a Thanksgiving Day countdown every November. Much the way the end of August gets people ready for new marble notebooks and freshly sharpened pencils. This is also the first year in a few that I’m not participating in a month-long blog challenge, so I thought […]

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This week I got a flyer for something called the “True Happiness Hour”. I’m in, was my immediate reaction; I want true happiness, don’t you? The first meeting is November 15th. Can I wait until then to attain it? A lot will happen between now and November 15th; Halloween, my sister coming to visit, and […]

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The weather this week went from the 80’s to the 50’s literally overnight, so it time to turn on the oven and get baking. I made some amazing peanut butter cookies Friday, thanks Food 52. This week I roasted green beans, chicken and shrimp. This morning, I put on a cozy, I’m not planning to […]

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I remember my father sitting in his office, with the low hum of talk radio in the background. How could he listen to it all day? Why didn’t he listen to music? I couldn’t imagine opting for endless chatter over the Jackson Five and Credence Clearwater Revival that came to me through my A.M. radio […]

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Stuffed cabbage is one of my childhood favorites. My mom made hers with a secret ingredient; ginger snaps. I found the recipe in a spiral bound cookbook that was put out by the Nassau Community Temple Sisterhood group cookbook. The book is probably from the 1960’s, but I can’t be sure because the cover (as […]

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