Hubby used to put a couple of capers in his vodka instead of an olive. You can substitute them for cocktail onions, too. Handy, since I don’t know where they keep the cocktail onions at the supermarket.

I got one of those when I was 12. It’s what got me hooked on perfume.

One year my husband gave me a dustpan, which I still have.

If she’s in the new season of The White Lotus I guess we’ll find out how Tonya’s relationship with the dying Greg went. I must say hers was the character I most identified with, even though I am not a “psychotic alcoholic,” as she called herself.

3 of which are eaten all weekend for breakfast.

So, “On the Beach”, but funny?

And you never can be sure WHY someone is checking out a book. Some years ago it was a thing for would-be censors to check out public library books they objected to and then “lose” them.

Cottage cheese is interesting, too.

In some schools that is quite possible, or the librarian might have to be a sort of circuit rider who works at multiple schools.

What I want, but won’t get, is less shooting and more making out.

Same with clothing. Everyone is a) in military uniform, b) dressed in flowing robes, c) dressed like medieval peasants, except for Admiral Purple Hair who wore an evening gown for no reason.

I grew up with Disney. I remember Walt! So “Disney + leader of a crime syndicate” is a little hard to get my head around.

Nope - according to the American Library Association’s bill of patron rights, only the parents can dictate what a child can or cannot read, and patrons’ records are private unless there is a subpoena (or if the Patriot Act is involved). Librarians are gently explaining this to Mr. Thaker, I am sure.

The first live-action Hollywood movie I saw (with my parents) was The Vikings with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. I was 6. Tony Curtis throws a falcon at Kirk Douglas, leaving him with one white eye for the rest of the movie. Later Tony Curtis throws some warlord into a pit of wolves and gets his arm cut off for it.…

I don’t know if it’s hit the stores yet, but “The Book of Magic”, Alice Hoffman’s sequel (not prequel) to Practical Magic, has just been published.

And no pinkface unless you’re RuPaul.

They haven’t yet explained how one bullet killed a person and injured another.

I find that instead of walking off the job it is so much easier to stay on the job and just not do any work.

My mother taught me that when making gravy, in which you are mixing a small amount of solids (flour) into liquid, it works better to use a figure 8 pattern. This also works when the proportions are reversed, as with a can of soup dumped into a pot for heating.

Just last year Alice Hoffman published a prequel, “Magic Lessons”, about that very ancestress. It is excellent. Be sure to read the other prequel, “The Rules of Magic”, which is about the aunts when they were young, and I am eagerly awaiting “The Book of Magic” which centers on Sally’s now grown daughters. Many of Hoff…