Tag: kevin weeks
member name: Kevin Weeks
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December 23, 2009 11:53 AM EST --
M y parents recently sent out an email asking ten specific questions about what my siblings and I remembered about our childhood Christmases. "How tall was our tallest tree?" "Who was first to . . .
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November 16, 2006 05:53 PM EST --
I don't know who "the self-appointed recipe police" are, but I wish they'd quit tormenting Shannon 'cause I'm tired of reading that stupid disclaimer. So what if she copies all . . .
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December 22, 2009 02:49 PM EST --
I pulled the pot of stock from the fridge and it shimmied. It didn't wobble. It didn't shudder. It didn't ripple. It didn't sashay. Nor did it undulate, shake like a bowl full of jelly, or shiver. . . .
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June 15, 2006 04:05 PM EDT --
In the News
In the event anyone is interested, the reporter from the local paper interviewed me a couple of weeks ago and the story appeared yesterday.
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September 01, 2006 05:41 PM EDT --
Thanks to all who offered criticisms last night. They were all to the point and valuable. Here's a second pass.
Food Porn
I walked in the front door and confronted a huge bowl of paella. . . .
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October 31, 2006 08:30 PM EST --
"I was going to comment, but the article speaks well for itself. -- M. Emmett Townsend"
I was going to comment too, but the article is garbage so why bother?
/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976827582 . . .
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December 08, 2006 09:44 PM EST --
Bridget said, "Do it."
Do what?
She often confused me that way. Giving orders, making assertions, delivering pronouncements with no clear beginning. Or end for that matter. They arrived . . .
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March 10, 2007 10:44 PM EST --
"Accede gracefully to the inevitable." This is my motto. It is expressed at greater length in the Serenity Prayer:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage . . .
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June 08, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
In January of 2005 I made a decision that's had unexpected, and sometimes unwelcome, consequences: I decided I would include a photograph of every recipe I posted on my blog, Seriously Good. It seemed . . .
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September 16, 2008 06:08 PM EDT --
There was a time, a long period of time, when I admired John McCain. I didn't agree with him most of the time, but I thought his bus was well-named, I thought he had principles and stood by them, . . .
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May 06, 2009 08:18 PM EDT --
On a spring evening I passed away quietly while napping on the couch.
Or perhaps it was a winters night in a burst of glowing agony,
Snatched from my sleep in a twisting paroxysm of pain.
Maybe it . . .
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May 15, 2006 08:22 PM EDT --
Asparagus Aspirations
This is the peak of the asparagus season in North America with the season just ending in the southern latitudes, just getting going in the northern latitudes, and in full swing . . .
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May 17, 2006 11:59 AM EDT --
Baking Group?
Is anyone interested in a group focused on baking? This would cover tips, techniques, methods, and recipes for bread, pies, cookies, cakes, and anything else involving flour and an oven. . . .
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December 08, 2006 11:43 PM EST --
On Writing "Do It"
Sandy told me I had try my hand at the blind writing exercise and pointed me to her exercise. It was the most powerful, though least polished, of the stories Sandy's . . .
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November 13, 2007 11:48 PM EST --
Sonny Purdue, Govenor of Georgia: Please, Lord, we need rain.
Lord: Oh My Self, I had no idea you needed water! I was so busy playing with my WII that I just plain lost track. Tell you what, . . .
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December 01, 2007 12:35 PM EST --
A lthough garlic as a ward against evil is most closely associated with vampires, thanks to Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula , it has in fact a long and near-universal reputation as a form of protection . . .
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March 08, 2006 06:13 PM EST --
Spanish gold alight
Pedestal of glowing steel
Oh my, Clementine.
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April 10, 2006 12:38 PM EDT --
Sins of Commission
Most of us have a few guilty secrets. There are early transgressions we might now admit to with a wry, if slightly embarrassed, grin. For instance, as a child I was sometimes unable . . .
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April 22, 2006 10:22 AM EDT --
2000 Years of Asparagus
Asparagus is a member of the lily family and related to onions and leeks. The word itself comes from the Greek word aspharagos, which derived from the Persian word asparag, meaning . . .
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April 26, 2006 04:39 PM EDT --
Just Like Mom's
The urge to nostalgia seems universal. We are most aware of it when nostalgia for some aspect of our past becomes fashionable again as with automobiles like the Ford Thunderbird . . .
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