For once she understood a phrase her mother used to use when she was a kid, sometimes to help justify a shopping trip or an impromptu dinner out. “It is a chocolate-cake decision,” her mother would say. She would wear her flirty sideways grin and explain, “A chocolate-cake decision is one where you know something [...]
Posts on ‘November 28th, 2010’
Sunday Salon – November 28, 2010
November 28, 2010 9:30 AM Good morning! Welcome to this week’s Sunday Salon edition. I hope all my U.S. readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Kip and I cooked up a turkey with all the fixings and shared it with his parents. It was a quiet, but enjoyable day. Yesterday we traveled to Sacramento to attend [...]
Mary Ann In Autumn – Book Review
There should be something about this hillside, some lingering sense memory – the view of Alcatraz, say, or the foghorns or the mossy smell of the planks beneath her feet – that would lead her back to her lost wonderland. Everything around her was familiar but somehow foreign to her own experience, like a place [...]
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