All admiration. I can only imagine the fortitude it must have required to take on a fight everyone said couldn’t be won when it sprung from a time of personal grief.

Drink water. Lots and lots of water. Fills you up, gives you something to fiddle with. Keep almonds in your car if you drive, hard boiled eggs and little individually waxed cheese rounds in your refrigerator so you’ll always have a protein snack at hand.

Tell the surgeon you want proper stitches, not glue and tape!!

The sugar to flour ratio is 1:3. That seems like a lot of sugar for bread. Sugar has quite a bit of water in it. Reducing the sugar might -might- reduce the humid gumminess.

YES! It was past time to switch from DOS to Windows but I held out because of the mouse. My arm was constantly fully extended and the cursor nowhere near where I wanted it to be. I found the MS trackball for work and a Belkin for home. Now I use an Apple trackpad, which is ...tolerable. Your article makes me long…

I admire your creativity.

12 dogs! Six were born to a young injured street dog when she was recovering from surgery after we managed to catch her and take her to the vet. Three we collected from a bus stop at different times through the years. One I found hopping down the sidewalk with broken front leg. One was inspecting all people…

Excellent. You only forgot to stick a “cont.” in there somewhere.

For those who don’t want to blanch and shock, Messermeister makes a “pro touch serrated swivel peeler” which is fast & fabulous for peeling tomatoes and [other] fruit.

Pass the bar, get your license to practice, and work for yourself. It is as scary as you might imagine, but you’re smart, you pace yourself and do your own research and writing if there is an area where your true interests lie. You’ll have new challenges instead of feeling -wrongly!- that you’ve failed. I further…

Oh, no, that’s soap? I thought it was a delicious new dessert until I read your text. They must smell lovely.

Wow. Congratulations. What important work you’ll be doing.

You might, once you get the hang of it, really enjoy driving manual transmission. I love manual transmission. When I drive an automatic I am sooo bored.

Can any website be downloaded?

“I am the kind of person who is startled every day by the recurring event of “dinner,”” Oh, me too, me too!

I think it’s time to say goodbye.

Linda Ronstadt released a record of traditional mariachi music in the late 1980s that may be appropriate for your semillito.

I buy flat-sheet parchment and use each sheet twice, once on each side. A simple swipe of a damp sponge removes cookie or bread crumbs and it dries in moments.

This idea suits me spectacularly! Not for breakfast, though ... lunch or dinner!

Ah, but you have Fante’s is in Philadelphia, a store often mentioned in cookbook “resources” section. The crazy part of me wants to travel to Philly just to shop there.