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Actually, I have too many tabs open and pages marked. Time to record the contents here so I can close them and move on. In no particular order:

  • In answer to rhubarb: sweet potato brownies, a recipe from Robert St. John's Deep South Parties, or, How to Survive the Southern Cocktail Hour Without a Box of French Onion Soup Mix, a Block of Processed Cheese, or a Cocktail Weenie. (Mind, in spite of the subtitle, the book contains three different recipes for pimento cheese. That said, I think the idea of Red-Bean-and-Rice Spring Rolls with Creole-Tomato Dipping Sauce is absolutely brilliant, even though I personally refuse to deep-fry and thus will never get around to making them.)


  • The Voluptuous Vegan is currently out on loan, but the library had another book by the same author, called The Healthy Hedonist. We shall see...


  • From the Cimarron Review archives: Tina Schumann's Travelling Instructions:


    Because I am feeling like a house today
    --all brackets and blueprints--you must appeal to the dog
    in me; the one whose snout travels the floor
    for any known scent, any signifier of home...


    [M'ris, this reminded me of both you and me. I think because our deep attachment to our homes...]



  • Speaking of M'ris -- she posted the opening to "Carter Hall on Enemy Ice" at the start of this week. I adore every glimpse of this universe I get. (Carter on his seven-year-old niece: "She punched me in the shoulder. I have got to get Tam to teach her to pull her punches, because Janet never will." *glee*)


  • Speaking of not pulling punches: a discussion of conflicts of interest in medical journals. The killer quote is near the end, from Marcia Angell:


    It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.


    (N.b. I'm re-quoting this without having read the original article from which this bit is taken. Caveat lector...)


  • Jon Wertheim: "THIS is what I love about tennis: a Filipino fan of Russian player who retires in Dubai writes to a journalist in central New Jersey to express despair."


  • Not to mention the fact that I'm currently trading tweets with a (I think) English fan of South Asian ancestry about a match between Scottish and Argentinian players taking place in Spain (and comparing the Scot's current inability to convert break points with our favorite Swiss airhead). Heh.

  • From Robert K. Greenleaf's dream journal, January 26, 1961:


    Life should be leisurely, not to allow time for loafing or for slowness of pace, but to allow for organization of the optimum life: whenever one finds he or she cannot do the things that are most important for want of time, something is basically wrong with the structure.

      -- epigraph, Seeker and Servant: Reflections on Religious Leadership


  • And so, back to work. Stay warm and well, my dears. To borrow a phrase from the wise and lovely Jennifer Michael Hecht, I shall return to encourage you again.





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