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Review of Michelina's Chocolate Fudge Brownie
StevenHelmer, Thank you for practical information, pretty pictures and product lines.
Sometimes mushy chocolate fudge brownies appall me, but sometimes they have their appeal. Perhaps it's like when I like my eggs firm and when I want them ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/11/2022
Indian Samosa A Long Journey
This may sound a bit facetious, but in re-reading and re-visiting your article, I started thinking of how samosa is a street-food snack. Would feral sentients such as cats be fed, or interested in, samosa? What would you feed domesticated or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/11/2022
Medical Tourism A Boon That Saves Money and Life
pateluday, Thank you for practical information, pretty pictures and product lines.
India does not surprise me for figuring high on medical tourism what with the subcontinent's finessing homeopathic, natural and traditional medicines along with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/11/2022
Medical Tourism A Boon That Saves Money and Life
Usually, when an ailing person dies in a foreign country the body is sent back with the assistance of the country's embassy or consulate.
pateluday, on 01/11/2022
Medical Tourism A Boon That Saves Money and Life
The one problem with the seriously ill traveling for treatment, and I knew of such a case, is that if the person should die moving a body is not easy to do due to legal difficulties. I am not certain if the same thing applies to India, the case ...
blackspanielgallery, on 01/10/2022
Mardi Gras 2021
Traditionally, King Cakes are sold from January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, until Mardi Gras. This year the season is particularly long, Mardi Gras coming March 1 and the Feast of the Epiphany was moved by the Church to the preceding Sunday, ...
blackspanielgallery, on 01/07/2022
Only One Day (A Poem)
This poem makes me think of my father, who was a reconnaissance trooper in WW2. His job involved going into enemy territory to find out where the Germans were, then fighting his way out. He had a terrible war in which he lost many comrades.. So ...
frankbeswick, on 01/07/2022
Benedict XVI: a life
It is out already. I have a copy, which I will begin reading tomorrow. I took a break between volumes to read a biography of St Paul, which I bought with a book token given to me for Christmas.
Happy New Year to you.
frankbeswick, on 01/07/2022
What Are You Fighting For? (A Poem)
StevenHelmer, Thank you for your poem.
In particular, I find realistic how politics is personalized to the individual level. It makes me think of the Woody Allen movie in which he and Diane Keaton's character think that overthrowing one person ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/07/2022
God's Got This (A Poem)
StevenHelmer, Thank you for your poem.
In particular, I'm intrigued by your reference to crying oneself to sleep. One person in the Bible knew the solution to his problem in the morning after crying himself to sleep.
Would the reference to the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/07/2022
God In Front of Me (A Poem)
StevenHelmer, Thank you for your poem.
In particular, I chuckle over the touch of your dropping your fork after burning your lunch. It's not enough that the world is shafting you with people with short tempers or that its comforts are shafting ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/07/2022
The Oxford comma: What it is and when to use it
SteveRogerson, Thank you for practical information, pretty pictures and product lines.
In particular, I like the Harvard comma and the Oxford comma. Nevertheless, it probably looks from my writing that I don't since I tend not to use it because ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/07/2022
Only One Day (A Poem)
StevenHelmer, Thank you for your poem.
In particular, I appreciate the references to leaving loved ones behind, leaving pieces of body and soul away from home and treading where others dare not. When I find out that someone has been in the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/07/2022
Why we know the number of stars in the universe is finite
SteveRogerson, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
This is an interesting argument for finite stellar numbers be they in finite or infinite universes. I like the line-of-sight argument in whatever direction ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/07/2022
Christmas food for the Tudor rich and poor
Rush bearing ( Reed floors ) is discussed here
https://wizzley.com/rushbearing-at-grasmere-in-the-english-lake-district/
Veronica, on 01/07/2022