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We were hanging this evening listening to Spotify Louis Prima channel, a pretty fun and lively place.  A song came up, say that’s my theme song!  At least for my kitchen.  You denizens of this blog will notice that I like to punctuate my posts with a tune.  None of my kitchen and food postsContinue reading “when they come to my house”

Growing up, I don’t recall paying much attention to the fleshy, edible stalks (petioles) of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food.  I recall my older relatives swooning over rhubarb pie once it came in season, but I don’t recall them offering me a taste.  Maybe theyContinue reading “rhubarb!”

Julia Child has a wonderful simple sauce recipe for any kind of berries.  But a key ingredient is sugar, which the missus abhors since going on keto.  We’ve adapted our strawberry shortcake recipe, so we decided to do the same with the current crop of berries. We had some fading strawberries plus some prime newContinue reading “sauce”

I hope you all had a great 4th.  Today is the official “Independence Day holiday”, so we can do it all over again!  Be sure to fly your flag.  And remember you don’t have to wait for a holiday to do that.  Show your neighbors whose side you’re on. As I was cleaning up myContinue reading “more from my kitchen”

I practiced medicine for 40 years. I don’t know if I ever got it right. Upon retirement I happily shed the responsibilities of medical practice and haven’t looked back. My recent dive into my storage room looking for pictures for my 50th plus one high school reunion has found some additionals. In the early 80s,Continue reading “all that doctorin’”

I doubt you’ll be hearing this on the news.  A like-minded and most cherished colleague of mine brought this to my attention.  A paper in Vaccines (1) was retracted (2,3) by the Journal today after they’d accepted the June 2nd submission on June 21st.  The authors did not agree (4). Three docs from Poland, GermanyContinue reading “2 out of 3 ain’t bad”

A few of what’s left of the 169 who graduated from Vicksburg High June 1970 will gather 3 weeks from tomorrow at Indian Run Golf Club in Scotts for the 50th reunion that COVID robbed us of last year.  I’ve asked my class president and reunion committee chairman Forrest to include this song in theContinue reading “there are things to realize”

I had the best mother-in-law.  Ruth Olsen was an Ann Arbor girl, raised by an old Norwegian guy who talked funny and bound books for all the UofM eggheads needing to publish their theses.  She attended Ann Arbor High and graduated with no one famous, although my dear colleague George Thompson may have been close,Continue reading “my mother-in-law”

“The pretender” was a standby in the old Shoreland Days at U of C. Mary Ann and I debated if we wanted to struggle for the legal tender, which we eventually both did. I don’t know if we even had dark glasses. But each day we got up to do it again, and continue toContinue reading “more Jackson Browne”

I wrote this end of March, 2020, just as COVID was descending. Kathy and I were impressed at the working guys keeping things going. When’s their parade? It was mainly a beer run, off to Castle on the West Side with its fully stocked shelves and impressive collection of IPAs.  No outgoing today, with collectionContinue reading “mainly a beer run”