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  • Just Icing on the Cake, Part One

    Cake Decorating

    Roberta McReynolds takes us on another of her adventures: “I allowed the cake to cool and readied myself for the process of turning my cake into two even layers. It seemed that the cake didn’t understand its role. The pieces falling off the sides of the cake as I attempted to side the wire through reminded me of icebergs calving off glaciers.”

    Meringue used on a tort; photograph by Francesca Cesa Bianchi, Milano. Wikimedia Commons

  • Beyond My Wildest Dreams!

    Rose Mula writes,
    "If I won the lottery, I’d buy a new luxury car or two — every year for
    the next fifty. Furthermore, I’d look young and beautiful forever
    because I could afford plastic surgery to erase every wrinkle as it
    appeared."

  • Utterly Unsuitable

    The week ahead

    Holds lots of dread:

    I have to buy a bathing suit.

    I’d be a dope

    To have much hope

    Of finding fit (don’t mention cute).

    In fact if my long search is fruitless

    I may well have to dive in suitless.

    Julia Sneden writes and rhymes about bathing suit shopping: It’s an annual
    chore for most people, this business of buying a bathing suit. For me,
    it comes around every six months or so. With older women and men doing water aerobics and swimming laps, wouldn’t you think the bathing suit manufacturers would twig to the idea that there’s a huge market out here? We buy suits more often than teenagers do, because we’re harder on them

  • Lost: An Incredible Emporium

    Joan Cannon writes, "Wanamaker’s in New York City had beauty, utility and art for art’s
    sake in a commercial venue. It had an enormous staff, whose livelihoods
    depended on it for many years. The inventory was huge and so diverse it
    amazes me to think that they didn’t close the store until the nineteen
    fifties."

  • Obama Inspires Republicans

    Jo Freeman writes:  African-Americans achieved a visibility at the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee not seen in the memory of anyone there, and perhaps not ever on the national level.

  • Blending In

    Ferida Wolff writes:
    My husband and I went on vacation to a place both foreign and familiar
    to me — the Middle East. The foreign aspect was that I had not been in
    that part of the world before. The familiar part had to do with my
    paternal family. My grandfather came from Palestine and my grandmother
    from Syria. This set the stage for an adventure that both surprised and
    delighted me.

  • Gay Republicans Plan Their Future

    Jo Freeman writes:
    Log Cabin Republicans are very dedicated, stalwart Republicans, who
    refuse to be run out of their party despite a hostile atmosphere. They
    have occasionally found allies among some of the other outsiders in the
    party, but not without difficulties.

  • Summer sun protection is much more than just picking the right sunscreen

    Dermatologist Cynthia Bailey writes:
    As a California dermatologist, I spend most of my time treating people
    with skin cancer. I teach my patients to enjoy being outdoors and
    keep their skin safe. Today, sun protection information is complicated
    by vitamin D information such that even doctors are confused.

  • The Theater of Estate Sales

    Jeanne Hubbell Asher writes:
    "Aspects of the estate sale are rich subjects for high drama, theater of the
    absurd or sometimes a farce.  Perhaps the sales could best be described
    as improvisational with deeply moving personal sagas tempered with, in
    some instances, comic relief."

  • The Bored of Education

    Julia Sneden writes:
    "While it is often left to the populace to vote on bond issues creating
    new schools, the need for school maintenance and repair seems to me to
    be every bit as vital. Too often it is shoved aside for other matters,
    buried somewhere between the School Board’s purview and Central
    Administration offices."