From the monthly archives:

November 2009

November: only one more month to go

November 30, 2009
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Dark Days: Thanksgiving

November 29, 2009

Paul and I had a quiet Thanksgiving at home, just the two of us. Despite that, we cooked enough dinner to feed a small army. I realized, as I surveyed this spread on our kitchen counter, that we really have no idea how to cook Thanksgiving dinner for two. Fortunately, we both like leftovers, as [...]

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A poem for Thanksgiving

November 26, 2009

Grace Thanks & blessing be to the Sun & the Earth for this bread & this wine, this fruit, this meat, this salt, this food; thanks be & blessing to them who prepare it, who serve it; thanks & blessing to them who share it (& also the absent & the dead.) Thanks & blessing [...]

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Dark Days: Beginning with pot roast

November 23, 2009

It’s a month before the winter solstice, and each day is noticeably darker than the last, so it’s time again for the Dark Days Challenge, organized by Laura at (not so) Urban Hennery. During this challenge, which runs from November 15 to March 31, sixty-five bloggers will cook, photograph and blog one meal each week [...]

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Summer into fall

November 13, 2009

For ten months (plus the first several days of November), I’ve been taking at least one photo each day. Sometimes, my daily photo is not very good… but my recent not-very-good shots are, I think, better than they were at the beginning of the year. Are my good shots better than those from early in [...]

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