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Salt
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen I clipped this quote out of a magazine I was flipping through while taking a break from my writing yesterday. For a dedicated salt-lover, it caught my…
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Peachy-Keen
Peachy-Keen…an old expression from the 1950s. It has fallen out of use, like so many of the slang phrases that each generation creates. I have a vague memory of a bobby-sox clad teen from an old movie saying it, and I…
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Girasole: Sunflower
As I finished the last few pages of a humorous/serious memoir about a man who dramatically changed his lifestyle and location from a high-speed Los Angelino to a Tuscan, I was caught up in his description of the beautiful sunflowers that…
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Bread and Porridge
As a child, I had a very old book of stories that was handed down from my family, the cover of which was shaped like the trunk of a tall and narrow tree, The Tall Book of Nursery Tales1. Inside were…
