For Christmas, our Australian friend B. gave us a pudding made from a recipe kept in her family for generations. I don’t think I’d ever had such a pudding. To reheat it before serving, I boiled for half an hour. It tasted like a moist version of fruitcake, although I’d much prefer B.’s pudding to […]
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Christmas pudding (authentic Australian)
January 9th, 2006 · No Comments
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A hypocrite’s guide to surviving the holiday season
January 9th, 2006 · 2 Comments
[Editors note: Although the holiday season has passed, I thought I would publish this post in retrospect, as a reminder to myself, as a result of the effort I have already put into the piece, and as preparation for ten months from now when I may re-post portions of it!…] I try to ignore it, […]
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Coming clean in the new year
January 8th, 2006 · 3 Comments
I have a confession to make. I probably have quite a few things to confess. But the one I was planning to describe today involves this weblog. I have cultivated a bad habit of writing posts in draft form and then failing to publish them. When I have an idea, I like to play with […]
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Comments are broken but help is on the way
January 3rd, 2006 · 2 Comments
A kind reader informed me that comments are not functioning on my blog. I don’t know how or when this happened. I have received a number of spam messages in recent weeks including some with strange formats that may have affected my anti-spam plugin. I’m sorry for the malfunction. Ted and I have planned to […]
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January East Side Weblog Meetup January 3
January 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
The girls and I will be at the January East Side Weblog Meetup tonight (Tuesday) from 7 to 8 pm or so. We need to take the ferry over to Seattle one day this week and it fits our schedule to stop by Crossroads Mall for the Meetup too. Hope to see you there! Anita […]
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