Spitball Army

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Received via e-mail from Kim on 12 December 2008, at 9:13 a.m.: Just spoke with Jennifer and there is an opening at First Light Shelter. Now the task is convincing Kathy that she should go there at least through tonight as it is getting down to 29 degrees. I’m about to bundle up and go […]

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Received via e-mail from Kim on 12 December 2008, at 8:30 a.m.: On my way to take Bailey to school, I noticed that she was not wearing the boots I gave her. They were on the table that she was at last night so I assume they did not fit. Last night, she was wearing […]

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This morning, as I was taking the first sip of freshly-brewed coffee from a clean ceramic mug in the warmth of my roof-covered, fortified home, the following e-mail rang into my freshly-charged BlackBerry: Over the last 6-8 months, the Homewood community has had a vagrant. This is a rarity in our community so my curiosity […]

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Fred Child has posted his favorite classical CDs of the past year at the NPR website, but don’t expect a scroll filled with the latest, greatest recordings of Mozart, Beethoven or Bach. All right, there is a disc of Mozart and Beethoven violin concertos, but the majority of Child’s selections fill a niche where the boundaries between classically-trained virtuosity, international rhythms, jazz and pop music blur.

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People of a certain age will tell you that they remember exactly where they were when they heard the news that President Kennedy had been shot. I was only three years old then, but I do remember where I was when I heard about John Lennon.

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I looked it over, and the recipe definitely needed some revising, so as not to taste bland, or like a soggy green bean stew. The addition of two ingredients guaranteed to clog the arteries (bacon and cheese), and a reapportioning of the size of other ingredients and an adjustment of temperature and cooking time and, voila…a tasty wintertime harvest dish for a table full of hungry revellers.

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