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Crying Over the Cranberries

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

“There’s nothing like duck grease to oil a pan.”
–Grandfather Chick
Or maybe he said goose grease? . . .

I used to work at the public library, and I was scheduled at the reference desk on Wednesday nights. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, the desk was fully staffed but the public was not, and we had plenty of time to “familiarize ourselves with the collection”–scour the cookbook collection for what we would take to the dinner we’d been invited to the next day. Oh 641s, how you whiled away our hours!


The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, the library stayed open. The night before and after Christmas, however, the board looked at the traffic data and started to close for a few days. My mom and I seized the lull and dashed up to Chicago to spend Christmas with my grandfather. He hemmed and hawwed but his wife got them a tree; we got up at a reasonable hour and opened gifts, him having to reassure that he was not senile, he knew there were more presents for him but this one was very interesting, thank you very much. (more…)

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Fresh Eyes

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

It’s getting cold around here. We had a few false alarms–”Feels like winter is here to stay!”–and a couple days later it was 70, but today there was a good, from-the-ground-up edge to it that had us hunkering into our coats as we waited for the bus.

So we were staring at our shoes, younger son and I, instead of at the birds, the cars, the passersby; wedging our chins into the openings of our jackets and wondering whether it was time to look at the time again, when we noticed something on the sidewalk.

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Finding the Perfect Gift

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

I’m blogging about the tricky people on my Christmas present list at the Pop Culture Divas.

I remain this easy to buy gifts for

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