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OK, I know, this post is coming a bit late. But I’ve decided today is the official beginning of 2010 for me. Hooplah! Why am I getting such a late start on the New Year? Well, book edits. For the past two weeks I have been utterly immersed in book edits, to the exclusion [...] Per the Aztecs, nemontemi is the five days at the end of the calendar year, called the “useless” days. They are supposed to be a time of abstemiousness, fasting, prayer, and the general cessation of normal activities. They are also, it appears, a time of very bad luck for those who undertake to make [...] If you’re like me, you’ve seen this iconic Norman Rockwell image hundreds of thousands of bo-zillions of times. It’s a nice little picture; I don’t quite know what to make of the plate of celery in the middle of the table, it hardly seems a traditional Thanksgiving side dish, but whatever. This is not [...] It pains me to admit it, but my self-control isn’t all that it could be. Especially when it comes to things like cake, ice cream, and rice krispy treats. So when daughter and I made a big huge batch of rice krispy treats to pack in the lunches she’s taking for school, I thought, [...] Well, this is it. Daughter’s first day in sixth grade, and I must say, she looks very lovely and grown up. It’s bringing a bit of a tear to my jaded old eye. To honor the occasion, I got up with her early (Good lord, she was rarin’ to go at 5:30 a.m. — [...] |
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