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Shelling fava fasulye on the back porch (with recipe)


When I last left you, most of the Karagöz puppets were snoozing in the unseasonable sun, and the Write-a-matrix had slunk off in supreme defeat, after I failed to do academic work OTHER than grading papers. This left me on … Continue reading

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Just dropping by: Caught in the white cotton nightgown with juicy peaches and once-boiled tea


It is 10 a.m. and the sun is beating down on the waxy leaves of the pomegranate bush outside – I can almost see the heat waves emanating from the leaves themselves. I thought that only happened from inanimate objects…like … Continue reading

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