Tidy Tidbits: Friendship & Food

FRIENDSHIP The experts say, and I’m inclined to agree, that the older we get, the more we appreciate and value long-term friendships.  I now have close friends I have known for more than forty years and some more than fifty.  We recently had lunch with my girlhood friend and her husband.  I’ve known J. since we were in …

Florida Frolic: St. Augustine

FLORIDA FROLIC:  ST. AUGUSTINE In our quest to become better acquainted with our home state, we’ve been taking short trips to cities not that far from us.  For the last two years, we and good friends made a December trip to Winter Park to visit the museums, cruise on the lake, and sample the local eateries.  This year, …

Tidy Tidbits: Out & About

ENDLESS SUMMER This is so far a strange November.  We’ve changed the clocks and it gets dark early, but the sun is still hot during the day and the mercury scrapes 90.  Overnight it doesn’t get really cool (still low 70’s) and the days are sticky humid.  Usually by now, the local paper has had at least one …

Maine: Boothbay & Beyond

MOON DAY If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember exactly where you were fifty years ago today on July 20, 1969.  I had a summer job at Cornell University and was living in a rooming house near the campus.  My fiancé, now the Chief Penguin, was doing Air Force training in northern Maine at …