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Apr.07.2013 Desserts and Me Day I think desserts are my favourite meal. A friend saw this button and got it for me: "Life is too short. Eat desserts first." I have it as a magnet on my fridge door too. It's not that I don't eat healthy--I just eat less so there's room for desserts. Once in a while, a writer-buddy and I...	Apr.17.2011 Dessert Island It’s been awhile since I last wrote. I was stranded on a dessert island. Actually, not stranded. Desserted. I had my plate full. Surrounded by orange blossom and rose blossom water, the air smelled like honey. Life was anything but crumby. Then I panicked as baklava left my sight....
May.30.2010 Tarte Tatin La Tarte des Demoiselles Tatin is the classic French pudding that is served upside down. Tradition has it that it was created accidentally at the beginning of the 20th century, in the kitchens of the Hotel Tatin in the town of Lamotte-Beuvron, deep in the Loire Valley, when Stephanie Tatin (one of...	Sep.30.2009 How Sweet It Is Several months ago I wrote a post entitled Online Journals I Admire. One of the journals I included was Sweet: A Literary Confection. Recently, I decided to try the journal with a submission. I'm happy to say that they took one of my poems for the current issue. My poem, Learning to Live Alone, is...
Apr.16.2009 I Googlophile or, Yes, There Are Free Lunches Recently I was at the Google headquarters at Mountain View to give an Authors@Google talk (now up on You Tube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbSw5Yo2TA)--and I have to say, I was quite charmed. The "campus" is appropriately named. Watching numerous blue-jeaned...	Dec.07.2008 Designer Pie Shop - Two To Operate My DESIGNER PIE SHOP book is ready. This small business appropriate for two people, a couple, two friends, retired couple, easy to operate, low-cost start-up! Order at lulu.com
Oct.22.2008 DESIGNER PIE SHOP I am soon, within a matter of a week or two, making my new book, Designer Pies, available on lulu.com. I have only a few important pages to add, and I have the tapestry for the cover image to finish. I have put my introduction to the book below. I welcome comments, solicit them in fact, on the...	Jul.24.2008 Eating your cake and having it too! As a confessed chocolaholic lifer, I was happy to read all the brou-ha-ha recently about letting kids eat their dessert first if they want to.("Go ahead, kids, eat your cake first," by Tralee Pearce, http://www.latimes.com 7/24/2008). Two Montrealers called Marie Breton and Isabelle Emond...
Jul.20.2008 What We Remember Today is my grandfather's birthday. He would've been ninety-three years old. Not a day goes by that I don't think of him in some way. I've mentioned in other blogs that when my parents separated, my mother needed to finish college to be competitive in the job market. My grandparents...