December 16, 2021

Joyful tasks of Christmas, visiting here, bestowing there. Bought supplies to bake cookies I am now out of the mood to make. Using the Hiram Women’s Faculty Club cookbook of, it must be, around 1971. Margarine appears in recipes then as it never would now, as does a great variety of salads involving Jello. Recipes are terse, without wit or anecdote. Spices are limited to the four or five I remember from my mother’s spice rack. Some things you are just expected to know. 

Maud curled in a corner which somehow amplifies her purr, which fills the room, sounds like the purr of a tiger. 

There is a Taco Bell Quarterly actually soliciting literature concerning the fast food business.