Whompie's Peanut Butter and Sweet Tea or The Lolita Lie (*trigger warning a...
This is another story from a collection called the Anorexics CookbookMost people see a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and they think of a tall glass of milk. Not me. When I see a peanut butter and...
View ArticleBetween Baked and Alaska - bureaucratic quicksand, broken AC units and living...
This is another story from a collection called the Anorexic's Cookbook I look to the sea. I have floor to ceiling windows in my living room that look west to the Pacific Ocean. I can see the towers...
View ArticleEaster Eggs (a #MeToo story)
(part of collection of stories from TheAnorexicsCookbook)How did the Lamb of God become a chocolate bunny? How did the crucifixion of the Messiah become baskets filled with colored eggs? It was not a...
View ArticleHunting Fresh Game (A #MeToo Story)
This is part of a collection of short stories from The Anorexic’s Cookbooktheanorexicscookbook.com/...Fresh game is an acquired taste but it’s a taste I've yet to acquire. You can’t even trick me into...
View ArticleTweaking the Recipe
While waiting to hear Lara Logan apologize for that debacle that was her Benghazi report, I listened to a profile of a surfer who became a millionaire. NO it's not the Food Stamp surfer that Fox news...
View ArticleHow to Measure
This is part of a collection stories which are also posted at The Anorexics' Cookbook. It's about my brother and pudding, Hugh Hefner and how measure a woman properly. It's also about what we value as...
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The Story of Two Men
This is the story of two men and how their lives intersected last week in North Africa. One man is a hero of the Libyan Revolution and is beloved by all of Libya. When others turned away, Chris...
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Prepping For the End Times
My friend David came by - like he does every week - to bring me communion and say the Rosary. David works with elderly Jesuit Priests all day and then uses his lunch hour to bring me communion. He's...
View ArticleWhen the game is rigged - change the game
I got a call today from Seattle Firefighters asking for $10.00. It's not much but I'm on Social Security and every dime counts. But hey, Firefighters! So I put the check in the envelope. Then I...
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Window Witness (and the Global Village)
When I first heard the story of Trayvon Martin all I could think of was my own 17 year old grandson. How many of those trips to the store did he make? How many times did he dawdle on the way home...
View ArticleChristmas Cookies
You leave cookies on a plate for Santa to find when he leaves your presents. Websites leave cookies on your computer so it can leave a virus. Either way cookies are the bits of memory that can warm...
View ArticleJeanne's Whole Wheat Bread
Recipies are really the kitchen wisdom that one woman hands down to another. It is a lifetime of memories and lessons, celebrations and tragedy all punctuated with food. This is a recipe for bread....
View ArticleWhy they don't tell (triggers)
The news from Penn State has triggered all my memories of being sexually assaulted as a child. I am startled by the number of people who are ignorant of the topic. But then, most of us prefer to...
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Texas BBQ Meatballs
People seem to wander in and out of my life. They show up at opportune moments. They bring recipes, they bring secret codes, they bring passwords, and they bring clues to the future. Like some...
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Hillbilly Lasagna Update w/ Recipe
The secret to my famous Lasagna is the sauce and I learned all about making sauce from Phil. Until I met Phil, I thought that spaghetti sauce was made with cans – cans of tomatoes, cans of mushrooms...
View ArticleWife Swaping Faith Healers
Hard times have forced me to live without the sweet pleasures of "on demand" cable programming. In fact, I’ve been forced to give up cable all together. For over a month now I’ve been going through a...
View ArticleNote to Noonan, Dowd et al
In Haiti, the world broke apart in what must have seemed like Armageddon. People crawled out from buildings to follow the sound of voices they did not know. Then with bare hands they dug through the...
View ArticleHey Mr. Brokaw, stop "talkin bout my g g g generation"
I wasted two good hours watching CNBC's "Boomers" last night. Maybe I've seen too many episodes of "Lie to Me" but I just couldn't ignore the scowl on Tom Brokaw's face when both Bill Clinton and Tom...
View ArticleGlenn Beck's America Has No Color update
Beck Says: http://www.foxnews.com/... "I'm about to show you something here that I think will help tie everything together that we've been talking about for months. You know, when I first started this...
View ArticlePlaying "Beat the Prez"
It’s going to be another day of the blame game. It looks like Congress is playing musical chairs and the last one standing has to take the blame for AIG and the entire Wall Street Meltdown. Well,...
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