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carolsartain
Sep 10, 20195 min read
Queen of Sheba
You would be hard pressed to find a more agreeable, soft-spoken woman than yours truly, except on those occasions when I am replaced by...
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carolsartain
Sep 3, 20196 min read
25 Sets of China
It was obvious we had lost our minds. We were in an antique mall in Simi Valley and I couldn’t find my friend. “Joyce! Joyce! Where are...
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carolsartain
Aug 27, 20197 min read
Car and Driver Dreams
Motor vehicles are agents of mass destruction. Instead of the Four Horsemen, they are the Four Treads of the Apocalypse. Imagine I’m...
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carolsartain
Aug 20, 20195 min read
Lies I Have Told
I’ve never been very good at telling lies. I feel guilty and then I look guilty and then the game is up. Also, you have to remember who...
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carolsartain
Aug 13, 20195 min read
Japanese Food
My love affair with Japanese food did not begin as a child. No. When I was very young, if we weren’t eating Jewish food at home, we were...
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carolsartain
Aug 6, 20195 min read
Skill or Talent?
What is the difference between a skill and a talent? Ask Google and it will tell you a skill is expertise, adeptness, and a great many...
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carolsartain
Jul 30, 20195 min read
Life in Nowhereland, Part 2 - Fruit
In Part 1, I mentioned we lived for a period of time in rural North San Diego County. Why? Because the husband wanted to live near his...
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carolsartain
Jul 22, 20197 min read
Life in Nowhereland, Part 1 - The Busy Little Boy
I think we lived in rural North San Diego County for three years. Don’t quote me. It might have been two-and-a-half or twenty. We...
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carolsartain
Jul 16, 20196 min read
The Mighty Plant Rustlers
The fact that for three years I spent every Saturday and Sunday morning scouring Southern California for horticultural treasures...
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carolsartain
Jul 9, 20196 min read
A Well Stocked Bar
There was a brief period in my life when I decided to host dinner parties. This differed vastly from the fifty-odd years during which I...
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carolsartain
Jul 2, 20196 min read
My Father the King, Part 2
My Father the King Part 1 ended with a judge placing my father in a foster home. They were a nice couple who had a little girl of whom my...
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carolsartain
Jun 25, 20196 min read
My Father the King, Part 1
Some people are born to royalty, even though they may never quite achieve it. My father was one such. It’s probably his fault that I grew...
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carolsartain
Jun 18, 20195 min read
My Son Houdini
You’ve heard of Harry Houdini the escape artist, right? Can you imagine how his mother felt when he started practicing his octopus...
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carolsartain
Jun 11, 20196 min read
Nephews
I’m blessed with nephews. They are wonderful, each and every one of them. Even when they are torturing me with teasing, I know they’d be...
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carolsartain
Jun 4, 20195 min read
Collector or Hoarder, Is There a Difference?
Just because two walls in my garage were packed from floor to ceiling with crates full of china, stemware, and other tableware treasures...
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carolsartain
May 28, 20195 min read
Reflections on Cooking
At my mother’s house, when someone went into the kitchen to prepare a meal it was referred to as making the meal. “I’m going to go make...
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carolsartain
May 21, 20196 min read
Memories from the Table, Part 2 - Feeding the Hordes
Some of my fondest memories come from mealtime moments, and that’s really saying something because most of the time I was too...
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carolsartain
May 14, 20196 min read
Memories from the Table, Part 1 - How Much Chicken Can One Person Eat?
Every family has their holiday mealtime traditions. In fact, I once took a history class during which the instructor said he could tell...
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carolsartain
May 7, 20195 min read
Walter Mitty the Muse
James Thurber wrote a short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” about a mild natured man who daydreams about being a hero. After...
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carolsartain
Apr 30, 20195 min read
Why I Am Going to Heaven
I could turn into an axe murderer tomorrow and I’d still get into heaven. That’s because I didn’t kill either husband when I had the...
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