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I’ll Stop the Verse and Melt With You
As noted here, I have a thing for butter and sadly, we’re not talking toast. I tell you, sometimes I pop butter directly with brown sugar and my mouth thinks why bother baking? It’s all here. Back in bakery years, working all day near 64...
Back Pages: French Onion Cider Soup, Take Care
Why does this post merit repeat viewing? First, we’re now fully immersed in fall, and all the red and gold and chilly, early nights send me straight to the soup pot. Next, it’s almost a year since my dad passed away. When a blog-world acq...
Wordless Wednesday: Halloween
A few words anyway: while prepping Miss Undead, Josie said “I want the makeup to look, you know, like she had a lot on and then it smeared for 100 years.” I told her the quickest route would be to turn 42, stay up very late, then check ...
Parties and Paneling
I had a lot of Halloween weekend parties in our wood-paneled basement. Here I am on November 2, 1975, thinking I did a swell job looking like Minnie Mouse. When did Minnie ever wear a green turtleneck? Also, I’m not trying to hang myself with ...
Secret Snack of Shame-a-Thon
By now I’ve been lucky to host nearly 40 Tell Simmer interviews, and in all but two of them* I’ve asked a guest – be they blogger, chef, writer or teen – to reveal their “secret snack of shame.” Their answers, de...
Comfort For the Too Close
I will not miss summer, not frizzy hair and heat for one minute – but every leaf fell today, dragon-red streamers in a parade of pouring rain. It was lovely, and made me want to spin each leaf on its stem, examine every brown lace vein and dry ...

