Thanks! Be well.

Thanks for the mayo clinic, Claire.

What if you didn’t have potato starch, had only blackstrap molasses, and did have half a big jar of Fluff left over from making fudge? I’m not great at substitutions (though I invariably make them anyway).

Thank you for crystallizing that point. I need such mini-scripts when talking to my tragically conservative parents these days.

Disagree. The fist into the palm when he’s talking is pure swole bro. Also does he need a pic of himself with his family AND a blowup of just him with one son? Narcissim is a ladyboner-killer.

I’m not crying... you’re crying.

My breakfast this morning: Good (i.e. moist) Irish soda bread, toasted, with plenty of Breakstone’s whipped sweet butter.

I wish that kind of food were my ticket to a nap. No, I’d just regret it the rest of the day and then spend the next week in constipated misery.

Not a single blackberry, blueberry, or even mixed-berry pie on the list? Ah, me. Well, Aimee got it closest to right.
Also: Rhubarb pie, no strawberries please. Try it.
Thanks, by the way, for this life-affirming diversion. Much needed. xo

It’s a thing of beauty, the salty and the sweet. A good sharp cheddar will turn a slice of apple pie into a meal.
For more Yankee peculiarities, see also: saltines with ice cream. My grandma was a devotee.

Sister, who lives in Melbourne AUS, says she can’t find any TP on the shelves, and now can’t even order more than 4 rolls at a time. How much paper do these people use?

A few days ago I stopped in at my Mobil station to buy milk and the cashier was flossing her teeth at the register. As I watched her pick up my gallon of milk to scan it, I remembered I had sanitizing wipes in my purse... old habit from early motherhood... gonna hang onto it.

My brother-in-law flew from Melbourne all the way to Denver for a conference two weeks ago, and discovered it had been cancelled while he was in the air. He was just one of many people coming from far away. At least he got some birding in before turning around and flying home again.

Don’t listen either. BBC America and NPR are in on the action with frequent updates, though it helps they can’t show scary graphics or images.

Came here to say I never see these posts before about 3 p.m. Not a problem in this case since our only McD’s closed a few years ago. I guess it was too close to the local diner, which is always full.

I have yet to convince my son (the great-grandson of a dentist) to brush twice a day and floss at least once, because at 14 he has never had a cavity (thank you, sealants). I continue to remind him that he could wind up with a needle and a drill in his mouth, or gum disease, which is scarier for its potential impact th…

Is that a living child?
And the gloved hand, is that the Onceler?
The spooky factor is high.

The only downside to those handy boxes is they’re not recyclable, at least not in my state.

Letting them struggle and fail also means showing them you love them when they don’t succeed in bringing that grade much above a C despite their best efforts... or you love them even though you watched them not making their best efforts.... but that you expect them to fight harder next time. It means teaching them to…

I was always under the impression that what we think of as Southern cooking (apart from the pies and the fussy food) is actually soul food, begun in slavery — whence the need to add whatever meat scraps you were given / could get your hands on to what you grew in your kitchen garden - the irony being that it’s hell of…