Back in the 1970s, the status symbol for school-aged children who brought their lunch in a brown bag (we did that back then) was Wonderbread. White, squishy, soft, building our little bodies in 12 different ways — combined with bologna it represented the pinnacle of elementary school sophistication and finesse. And of course, my mother, [...]
Archive for June, 2012
Quick, Cheap, Simple French Bread Recipe
June 26th, 2012
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Homemade bread doesn’t taste anything like what you’re accustomed to buying in the store — Thank God. If you’ve never made bread before, cut yourself some slack — your first loaves may not be picture perfect, but they’ll more than likely be edible. As with anything, the more you practice — and learn from your [...]
Life Is a Gift
June 20th, 2012
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Well, one of the kittens died. I know, it was grey and ugly, the product of its homely, drab, tabby-striped, alley-cat, pregnant feral mother that someone dropped off on our property. The morning she gave birth we all looked at one another and said, “Great. Four new grey and ugly alley cats that all look [...]
Conquering Fear
June 14th, 2012
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My vivid imagination, in conjunction with a Type Triple A, drive-it-to-the-ground personality, means that I conjure up all sorts of dire and dreadful scenarios for any given set of actual facts. The less probable the outcome, the more likely I am to come up with it, and I am fully capable of fancying an array [...]
Forgiveness
June 6th, 2012
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A friend and I have developed a coping mechanism for forgiving reprehensible people in our lives who have hurt us. It goes like this: Forget about trying to love these people. The warm fuzzy feelings just aren’t there and we’re in no mood to generate a substitute. We will, however, refrain from actively hating them. [...]
