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Just wanted to report that I did finally make those Easter treats I spoke of. It was my daughter's birthday on Sunday, and since I'd already bought for those things back at Easter, I went ahead and made them. They aren't hard--a brownie base; a nest of crunchy Chinese noodles coated in melted butter...

It's been a long time since I frequented any of those places, but I always thought Wendy's had the best burgers. Nowadays, if I go there, I tend to get their apple pecan salad. Not sure if we have In & Out Burgers around here. I think I've seen them mostly out West. But all the chains seem to ge...

That's an amazing passage. I wonder who wrote that. On long marriages: if there were an easy formula for making relationships last, everybody would already know it, and there would be no divorces. But I think you and your wife are on the right track, HH. I do think it is all about commitment, no mat...

Well, if the "returns" = more candy, I think some parents prefer to limit that. My husband and I were not among them.

I've spent the last 40+ years living with a man whose first career choice was military. Sadly for him, he had a heart condition that hasn't bothered him in civilian life, but one that made the arduous physical training of the military potentially dangerous, so he chose to get out. However, all thing...

We had a casual dinner together and talked mostly about movies. Pretty Woman, with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, was popular at that time, and I recall we talked about that some. Lowry seemed like a pretty normal lady. The word "utopia" connotes a perfect world I guess, but it literally ...

I prefer ToTing on the actual night, but there are so many options in the month of Oct now that people can pretty much choose what they want to do with their kids.

Actually, war is good for lots of innovations in technology and medical science. For example, weather radar came out of war. So did sonar. Magnetic resonance imagery (MRI). And medical science has advanced as it has struggled to cope with injuries brought on by newer techniques of destruction. Nucle...

When I was at Mary Baldwin, I had dinner once with Lois Lowry, who wrote The Giver. I was one of two profs who'd been tapped potentially to teach children's lit, so both of us had dinner with her when she came to speak. Ultimately the other woman taught the children's lit course. But it was a fun ev...

McDonald's fries have always been primo. I actually prefer baked or mashed potatoes, but I won't turn down a good French fry.

I've had salt potatoes before! They were in some recipe book we acquired. I'd thought they'd be too salty, but they weren't.

I also love Yukon golds, and red potatoes, too. Shoot, give me a potato and I'll eat it.

I think war is recurrent and inevitable because human nature is flawed. The Peaceable Kingdom envisioned in the Bible happens only after humanity has been redeemed and Christ has come again. Before that, I honestly think healthy capitalism is the best we can do. But I do envision a healthy capitalis...

I think the copyright covers the entire story. I don't think you have to take one out on each character.

But there's also the "poor man's copyright." You seal your work in an envelope and mail it to yourself. Never open it. The date stamp on the sealed envelope proves when you wrote it.

Yeah, it's funny that I love sour cream on regular white potatoes, but never on sweet potatoes. Do white sweet potatoes taste like the orange ones? It's funny that people would have developed or promoted a white one, since all the nutritionists are belaboring the importance of phytochemicals in the ...

Oh, orange ones. I'm not sure I've ever even seen a white one.

In this country i know we use "sweet potato" and "yam" interchangeably, but I think true yams come from Africa and are a little different.