Morning Has Broken

 

Dear Sirs

Dear Senators Budd and Tillis and Representative Edwards:

I'd like to know if you personally approve of raising the cost of health insurance premiums as will happen if the so-called B.B. Bill goes into effect.

Did you consider a good use of government money to summon 800 military leaders to Quantico to hear a pep talk from a Fox News personality and a rambling, self-congratulatory discourse by POTUS?

Are you on board with sending the military to US cities that have specifically opposed this overreach?

Do you support the use of masked ICE agents who seize  random suspects--including citizens--in their bounty hunter type behavior?

And why are the Epstein Files not being released? What pedophiles are you protecting?

Don't you ever feel embarrassed at the volume of lies coming from the White House?

I'd like genuine answers to these specific questions

Your angry constituent

 

A Culinary Blast from the Past

When John and I were first married (November 1963) and living in a small silver trailer in the Marine Corps' Midway Trailer Park (officially designated as "substandard housing,") at Camp Lejeune, we were living on his corporal's pay. It was not much but enough. (I got a teaching job the following September and we felt like plutocrats.)

But in those early days, we had to watch every penny. The fine china, crystal, and silver we'd been given as wedding presents seemed like a joke in our current circumstances. Plus all that stuff was back in Tampa.

Anyway, after a few months of life in the trailer, we decided we needed a television set and went to a discount store that advertised "90 days --same as cash!"

We selected their cheapest model--a small black and white set that probably cost $150--a not inconsiderable outlay for us.

But! As a bonus they threw in a little paperback cookbook- The World's Best Recipes! 

I was thrilled. I had begun housekeeping with two cookbooks--The Gasparilla Cookbook from the Tampa Junior League (I've worn out two copies and am on my third) and Betty Crocker's Cooking for Two (which was useful but uninspired.)

The World's Best Recipes drew from well known cooks and cookbooks, as well as various celebrities. It was, (and is) a fun read.

Pork chops Charcutiere was one of the recipes that I made over and over. And last night, I made them again and we reminisced about those early days.

(The original little paperback fell apart finally, and I was thrilled to find a used hardcover copy online a few years ago.)

 

Rabbit, Rabbit