Sep 25 2011
Today, the September sun is turning everything to gold. It’s the kind of day that’s perfect for apple picking, or for lazing in the last of the warm days of the year. I was just outside, and I found some pretty things around my house: We are getting together with a few friends this afternoon, [...]
May 25 2011
Another quick midweek thought, what with all those beautiful greens I bought over the weekend. After making those wonderful dumplings on Sunday, I still had a bunch of sorrel and watercress left. So today, because the weather was still this side of awful, I thought soup was in order. I recently wrote about a beautiful [...]
May 08 2011
When I was about 12 years old, my sisters gave me an illustrated book of the songs from Alice in Wonderland (in English, of course). The illustrations were wonderful and Lewis Carroll’s poetry is hilarious; the early and avid Anglophile that I was absolutely loved that book. The poem/song known as Turtle Soup and/or Beautiful [...]
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