Dorie’s Different Reality

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin. -Linus Van Pelt

I would like to write a rave review for a cookbook published in 1963. The McCalls Cookbook, as written by their food editors for Random House. As background for younger people, McCall’s was a very popular “women’s” (meaning family, cooking, home & life) magazine for decades. The McCall’s dress patterns still for sale was adjunct to […]

Do you have a “ghost” story? Or a mysterious coincidence. This is Halloween week, so definitely the time to tell it. This is my oldest one. Not so much terrifying, as darned curious:
When Mike left the Navy, we moved back to Toledo, Ohio. Since he was unemployed and looking we had to be careful with […]

Yes, I’m already gone, and I’m feeling strong
I will sing this vic’try song, woo woo woo, yeah, woo, woo woo….
 - Already Gone, The Eagles, 1974
I’m snickering! I found a “how long do you have left to live?” quiz: http://www.deathclock.com/?source=FindaDeath&key=TopBanner
First time when I calculated my BMI I answered honestly. It came up I died in 2002! […]

Went on a camera battery and miscellaneous stuff run this morning. I think with this being the last Saturday before Halloween, stores were more crowded than usual. All those last minute runs to the Party Store to get costumes for kids. Retailers are putting more ads on tv and radio to push people into that […]

I’m so frustrated! I have lots of things I could show you today and the camera ate up it’s batteries. I’ll get some when I go into town, but “town” is ten miles away in a choice of 3 directions (the 4th, West, takes me to a little town where the market went broke!) With […]

I read an interesting article about germy things in our everyday lives. #1 Nastiest Thing in the House is the Kitchen Sink.   It’s full of hot water and food particles and stuff likes to grow in the drain–yuck, yuck!  Another one I sort of knew, but forgot about is that just handing dirty laundry a […]

I wish to state for the record that I don’t give a good golly Miss Molly about the Rockies or the Red Sox! Baseball is the second most boring sport ever. The most boring sport- though you can hardly call it one- is golf. It’s almost November. I want it to be over. Get off […]

Have you seen the ad McCormick spice company has been running? It’s about old spices hanging around our cupboards. http://www.mccormick.com/content.cfm?ID=11985  I have a couple that are more than 20 years old- because I remember buying them when we lived in the townhouse! I think part of the problem is the packages are too big. They’re […]

When my daughter was little, she had a Golden Book Children’s Bible (with illustrations!) that was a read-aloud favorite. She had a favorite chapter too- Exodus! It had vivid pictures of the plagues- like the frogs boiling up out of the river. I recall one night I just couldn’t read that chapter anymore. I’d had […]