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Learning to Read
Six years old…. Canton, China. My six-year-old heart was burbling with excitement. Today I would be given my very own book with real words in it! Today I was going to learn to read. I rushed to our classroom – … Continue reading
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Tagged cheese, learning, oil, onions, pan haggerty, potatoes, reading, words
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TEA!
Shame and stupidity TEA, three little letters, that, when interspersed with others, can bring comfort, solace, and healing, but left together on their own they detonate into an explosion of grief, shame, humiliation, regret, and stupidity. I have lived, grown … Continue reading
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Tagged biscuits, British tea, Bunyan, coconut milkd, coconut oil, creamed coconut, curry powder, easy, foreigner, ginger, immigrant, imprisonmenr, lentils, onions, tea, vegan
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I wish we still had the stocks
You could tell she was miserable. Her sullen angry face stared straight ahead from the audience’s front row, her lips clenched tightly together. You’d think we were torturing her – we probably were. This concert took place in a … Continue reading
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Tagged carrot, cashew, choir, curry, fear of singing, freedom, simple cooking, singing, singing groups, Twelfth night, vegan, vegetarian
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Mince Pie Madness
The Brits are crazy. As an American I was absolutely sure of it. Especially at Christmas time. When I first arrived in England, an American bride married to my Yorkshire husband, I was baffled by the fact that at … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, cranberry, cranberry relish, cranberry sauce, idolotry, mincemeat, pie, Puritans, recipe, tart, tradition
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The Magnificent Clash of Cultures
“Miss Judy, will you come on Thursday to share our bread and salt, as we say?” “Oh, thank you for the invitation. I would love to come. But bread and salt are all I will share, because in the evening … Continue reading
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Tagged apple butter, apple butter uses, apples, customs, Egypt, Egypt's rainfall, Egyptian food, Herefordshire, protocol, spices, Thanksgiving
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GRRRRRR!
Whatever is this world coming to? I looked again at the document. “I can’t sign this,” I said. No punctuation marks. A relative clause so far from its parent verb that it wasn’t even a distant cousin. A spellcheck-reliant secretary … Continue reading
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Tagged bread crumbs, cheddar, cheese sauce, documents, mozzarela, parmesan, pasta, punctuation, signing documents, solicitors, spelling, wills
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The True Planet Savers
The Ping that started it all. Do you ever hear an incidental passing comment that suddenly goes ping! in your brain but you don’t know why? And you have to pursue it even if it leads nowhere? This happened to … Continue reading
Mary
Panic. “Oh no, here I go again!” I said as the heart pounded, fear gnawed my insides, hands perspired, and brain locked rigidly into Danger mode. Logic and clear thinking would now be suffocated by the black cloud of confusion … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, crafts, cycling, dolls houses, dried fruit, flour, geographically challenged, yeast free bread
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Busted Cover
Shame, they say, hates being shared. Once shared it can’t survive. Shame loves secrecy. A few years ago I, a closet non-gardener, stupidly infiltrated a herb garden workshop hoping for cooking ideas. The situation turned itchily uncomfortable early on. … Continue reading
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Tagged adult literacy, carrots, compost, gardening, gardening beginner, rice, shame sharing, side dish, vegetarian
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