This book is a great guide, especially if you read it before Thanksgiving. ♦ ♦ ♦ Some thoughts on Thanksgiving before I head to the grocery store with my massive shopping list two days before the U.S. Kitchen Olympics, along with all the other hordes of cooks who should’ve planned better. Do as I say, not as…
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Karma, Is That You? (Part 2)
Husband and I spent the weekend in Memphis with our friends, J and S, in a belated celebration of their wedding anniversary. We make a convivial group. Common interests include good food, chocolate martinis, and the Elmwood Cemetery. No, that’s not weird. We go to Elmwood hoping to catch someone staffing the Visitor’s Cottage so…
Karma, Is That You? (Part 1)
Statue in Elmwood Cemetery – Memphis, Tennessee. I bought the camera of my dreams in the early 2000s. I ordered it by telephone from a store in New York City after researching ads in photography magazines. I remember that the order taker was scornful that I didn’t know which aperture range to specify for my…
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