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What to Cook When You Hate to Cook, Recipe 14: Birthday Cake Light
An alternative to a heavy cake covered in thick, cloying frosting.
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Was She My Sunshine?
Sometimes it’s more important to receive a message than worry about its source.
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Raggedy Andy
Happy 100th!
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Writing into a Void
It’s hard, writing to someone with dementia.
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The Gifts We Give Ourselves
We are capable of giving ourselves many gifts, indeed.
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Facebook Drops a Bomb
Recently I got an e-mail from Facebook. “Today is Chuck’s birthday! Let him know you’re thinking about him!” A better question would be, when am I not thinking about him? Since his death my life hasn’t been the same. Were it not for Facebook I might have made it through that day without the occasional…
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My Tarot Year
I’m not a particularly superstitious person. I find astrology interesting, and I have noticed that the birthdays of most of my good friends tend to be clustered in certain specific times of the year, but I don’t believe that on any given day, every human on earth has but one of twelve destinies. Life is…
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The Birthday Chair
It’s funny sometimes how you entirely forget things that used to loom so large in your life. When I was very small, my mother used to have this delightful tradition on our birthdays. She would allow us to sit at the head of the table in a tall backed chair which she had decorated with…
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Getting Older
Today is my 49th birthday. Happy birthday to me. Given that the average life expectancy of the white American female these days is 81 years, I am definitely on the downhill slope. And it’s a rare woman in my family who makes it that far, so I could very well be further down the slope…
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Riding the Planet
Today is my birthday, and yesterday, my grandnephew Carter was born. Naturally, this has given me ample opportunity to compare our two situations. Having spent almost half a century on this planet, you might think I know a thing or two, and I suppose I do. I can pat my head and rub my stomach…