Category Archives: Family Oh end of year, oh Christmas day With all the things I want to say I spent a year of cooking madly Some came out great, some came out badly The seasons come the seasons go Crisp fall, hot summer, and so much snow Last winter seemed to never end It finally did in Spring […]  The winter solstice is the day with the shortest daylight hours. It doesn’t feel like it, but starting today the days will be getting longer for the next six months until the summer solstice. As far back as I can recall I’ve been interested in the four days of the year that mark the change […]  It’s not often you get a surprise at a funeral, and at this one I got two. On a June day in 1991 I met my parents at Mount Carmel cemetery which straddles Brooklyn and Queens, New York. We were there to bury my grandmother Harriet. Though any funeral is sad, my grandmother had lived […]  Senate Bean Soup, is a classic navy bean soup, and has been served in the Senate restaurant since 1903. Several weeks ago I put out a call for your favorite soups and the winner (by a wide margin) was potato soup, in second place was chicken, a few votes for gazpacho, and finally bean, including specifically […]  A year ago I embarked on something I called The Ugliness Project. Someone gave me a piece written by a young woman who was in terrible pain because she believed strongly in her own ugliness. In this moving essay she articulated every single feeling I’ve had about myself at one time or another, and though […] |
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