Entries from April 2009

April 21, 2009

Macon’s Chocolate Pie

“Mrs. Newby’s chocolate pie tastes just like yours.”
Actually, my pie tastes just like Mrs. Newby’s, and I’m ecstatic over Lily’s appraisal because that means I’ve been making it right all these years.
Not marrying until I was nearly 31 gave me the opportunity to be involved in all sorts of activities that, had I married young, [...]

April 14, 2009

Twu wuv

 Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togevah tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam… And wuv, twu wuv, will fowow you fowevah… So tweasure your wuv (from The Princess Bride, 1987).
We do, of course, remember the ill fate of this particular marriage. Princess Buttercup is an uncooperative participant, and Prince Humperdink has [...]