Category: general blog
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Unexpected things
I never know what to expect in life with the exception that it is usually not what I dreamt of, or hoped for. I may be a bit pessimistic or jaded; that is what others say. It is more that I am just a realist for the most part. No one’s life goes as they…
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First Snow
First snow of the season, it’s going to be big. The weather forecast said so, but that’s only modern say so. On the porch you look out to the northwest, far off, the wall is coming. Too far yet, but you can easily see the puffy billowing clouds. The edge of the wall, and it…
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Dreamsicle
I hear the painfully out-of-tune siren of the ice-cream truck as it wanders into the neighborhood. A sound all on to itself. As it nears, I run out to the street. Novelty ice-cream, my heart skips for joy. What do I want is the question asked; a dreamsicle! It is all I have ever wanted.…
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“Those people” are us
This was written as a prompt from a real magazine article. I didn’t bother reading the article, I knew what it said. Although this is taken from the point of a country/city view, it is the same with all of our communities: black, white, brown, yellow, political, religious, and all of the others. We are…
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I just want to write
I feel like right now is the time with all the time in the world. I should be able to settle down and work on my book. But there are unemployment forms, the pile of rebate forms I haven’t filled out yet, and SBA loan forms and some other Covid19 stuff to fill out and…
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Adventures in the kitchen with pooh #5
Thai Cabbage salad Tonight we are actually doing something from a cookbook OMG shocking but I realized just putting them on my countertop was not getting me food so I opened one up to have a talk with it and realized there were words in it. 10 minutes prep time and 5 minutes cook time. It is…
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Adventures in the kitchen with pooh #4
Tom Yum Soup I was told: Take out a cookbook and look at it. I did. I even put it on the countertop. After 4 days it still has not produced food for me. I know, how crazy is that! It even says “Simple Thai Food” right on the cover. I was not expecting great…
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Adventures in the kitchen with pooh #3
Sausages Just a quick pro-tip this morning. When heating the remaining 4 pre-cooked sausages that you put into a convenient zip-lock bag please remember to remove them from the bag before nuking them for a minute. Perhaps put them on a nice plate. Also, I would suggest only 30 seconds of cook time… Maybe less.…
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