Category Archives: Dead things
Patience
Some might call it neglect. But I learned from an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that the spice cardamom is the seed pod from cilantro. Huh! So as my cilantro plants bolted towards the heavens, I resisted the urge … Continue reading
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The End of Days: Part 2
OK, I’ve never done a two-blog. I try to be very concise. Give you a nibble, not a 3-course meal with coffee. But if I wrote ALL the strange things that happened to me on Saturday in one long blog, … Continue reading
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Goodbye My Lovely
It’s not often that you part ways with a member of your family after 22 years. After graduating from college, my husband and his father traveled to an oversized patch of asphalt outside of San Francsico and spent a full … Continue reading
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Crash & Burn
A cautionary tale. Laptop computer with long powercord stretched taut. Child moving at high speed. Flying computer. Little bits of data scrambled on the screen. Back up your data. (Thank god this wasn’t my computer … but I’m sorry for … Continue reading
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Stacking Up
Little dead sea urchins from the bottom of the sea. I can’t get over how lovely they are. They show the perfection of nature’s graphic design at work. I wrapped them in tissue paper and said a prayer that they … Continue reading
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Things We Don’t Appreciate, Part 2
Water. Really, we don’t appreciate water. Because when it only comes from the heavens, and the heavens have crossed their arms and said “no, not today” to rain for five months running, people get thirsty. And things start to die. … Continue reading
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On the Windowsill
If the kitchen is the “heart” of the house, then the kitchen windowsill must be the plaque clogging its arteries. There are teeny tiny sand dollars on my windowsill. I have three of them. For a long time I only … Continue reading
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