While our sweet daughter-in-law Sonia undergoes treatment for her Hodgkin’s lymphoma (recently– distressingly–returned, after eight years’ absence), we frequently have her two little girls for house guests. Raising these grandies…
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Sometimes I think about my life before abundant basil (or BAB) . . . Truly it was a sad, colorless time for me. Just a few years ago, for example,…
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You can choose one of three tacks on that moment (during which you are gazing out at your bountiful patch of summer squash) that you are hit (as with a…
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Gentle Readers, it has been a good long time since I’ve connected with you. The gardens are growing very quickly; the weeds are amazingly lush; AND (I’m not making this…
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What a lovely sight: my mom standing in my kitchen, with an experiment from hers: a plate of meringue-topped cupcakes! This is the way every day should begin, mused I,…
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