Month: April 2008
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Feeding family comes full circle
My mom was not the best cook in the world. She wasn’t the worst, either. She made my favorite dish of baked macaroni and cheese and lots of cake mix cakes. I filched plenty of homemade chocolate chip cookies off the brown paper sacks she used for cooling the hot cookies. The barren grease spots…
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Kids talk
As with all our children and grandchildren, the newest, born Jan. 31, is above average. But even she startled her parents the other day. They asked, “Let’s get ready to take a bath. Okay?” She babbled back a distinct “Okay.” Her first spoken word. She may not say it again for a year, but she…
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Jeremy Stein’s cat “Katurah”
Until recently, my nephew’s household included a sleek calico cat called Katurah. The following are some of his thoughts on his cat. Katurah, my calico cat, always had some kind of respiratory problem. She sneezed constantly and had a wheezy kind of breathing. As a tiny kitten, her sneezes would knock her over, but as…
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mom made me cook
The year our little brother went to kindergarten, our mom got a job and handed my sister and me a list of instructions for making supper for the family. “Put the meat on to boil, add salt, pepper and an onion. Peel potatoes. Make a chocolate cake from the mix.” I figure my 11-months younger…