It was to be a reward for mall walking when we would have preferred napping or reading yesterday afternoon. But C and I did almost three miles at the Orchards Mall and promised ourselves ice cream for our efforts. We

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Last August I gave Earl a Keurig for his birthday, knowing his love of gadgets.  At that time the Keurig seemed to be the coffee gadget par excellence, at least for simple folk.  (This excludes three hundred dollar cappuccino makers

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Earl and I eat at The Cranberry Bog about once a month.  It’s the bar inside the restaurant more familiarly known as Grande Mere Inn.  And while GMI features windows that look onto Lake Michigan and offer spectacular sunsets, (when

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I am attempting to empty our freezer, except for the duck (More on the duck later.).  I do this a couple times a year, although I’m not sure what motivates me.  Is it that the food needs to be used

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Call me a cynic, but there are three days in the year that I avoid restaurants.  They are New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, and Mother’s Day.  I refer to them as ‘Amateur Nights.’

It’s not because I dislike those who

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I’m not much of a cook; I prefer cleaning house to making meals.  Once you master cleaning rhythms, they’re simple repetitions .They allow you to bond with your things too.  But when you’re cooking, it’s always a challenge.

We’d invited

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I love cookbooks, even ones without photographs. (Although I do prefer ones with them.)  So when Earl gave me a cookbook assembled in 1998 by the congregants of St. Peter’s United Church of Christ in St. Joseph, Michigan, it reminded

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