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ManFood Recipe #166

ManFood Recipe #1

This first recipe in the series was inspired by my Grandmother. Not the recipe itself, but her concepts of taste, the melding of flavors, and presentation. Thank you, Grandma.... Here's what you'll need if feeding six hungry adults, or 3 meals...

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Winston Churchill: The Last Lion. Visions of Glory 1874-193279

Winston Churchill: The Last Lion. Visions of Glory 1874-1932

Most of us are familiar with Winston Churchill's heroic and inspiring service to Great Britain during World War Two. In this immensely readable book by the late historian William Manchester, we discover the early trials and triumphs that helped form...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Woman for All Seasons.68

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Woman for All Seasons.

This gloriously intelligent and passionate woman, of olive hues and dark, abundant hair, of flashing poetic genius, was born March 6, 1806, in Durham, England...An avid reader, by age 10 she had devoured Shakespeare and Milton...By age 12 she had...

30 comments    love poetry women
An American Tragedy: Crack-cocaine in our schools.73

An American Tragedy: Crack-cocaine in our schools.

Crack paraphernalia manufactured crack According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, on an average day in America 14 youths will commit suicide, 19 will be murdered, 2,600 will drop out of school, 15,006 ( that's almost 5 million a year ) will begin...

57 comments    drugs youth drug
Winter Colors...Five haiku from my back yard...63

Winter Colors...Five haiku from my back yard...

____________________ Caterpillar crawls Black Raven waits patiently A leisurely meal... ... .______________________ . A bodice of ice Proudly worn in Winter's grace Pond in Silver clothes.. .. ... .... ...

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Poems to Ponder 3: Joie de vivre63

Poems to Ponder 3: Joie de vivre

Ah, the Joy of Life...To steal the juice from tomorrow's imagined fruit, that wondrous trope that exceeds our desperate grope... To cling to fresh scents of natures vapors...a warm,  earthy bouquet that give rise to primordial images of Man's...

66 comments    love life poetry
Let me hold you, just a little bit longer...63

Let me hold you, just a little bit longer...

Let me hold you.. just a little bit longer... Let me know you,..just a little bit more... Let my thirst become fully quenched, Let me share your sun-drenched shore.... I love you...I truly love you... Take my heart, its yours !! I am a...

130 comments    love life relationships
Haiku Spring65

Haiku Spring

Cherry tree in snow... Soundlessly cries with pink tears... A Bouquet of Spring !! Cherry blossoms fall... Ancient pond accepts their kiss... Trailing limbs embrace. ...

121 comments    life poetry writing
The Tears That Won't...: A Memorial Day Tribute.65

The Tears That Won't...: A Memorial Day Tribute.

The Tears That Won't... I was thinking about tears today, and of the many slides of life where they appear, mostly unbidden.... The tears of joy, expressed by a proud parent when a child is born... The tears of pleasure when reading a...

189 comments    love poetry poem
The Organ Grinder's Monkey64

The Organ Grinder's Monkey

Evening bloomed quickly, with dark arms thickly holding me hostage to my chasing thoughts... . Treasures long hidden, rise unbidden to speak of forgotten aughts and naughts... The Organ Grinder's monkey flits, fusses, and fumes...reaching out with...

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