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Dog Days

by Jo Page August 23, 2012

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  I’m sitting here in a pool of sunshine, sky as blue as faded denim, tree branches swaying in the lazy summer breeze, June bugs buzzing and squirrels hornily cavorting. Doesn’t that sound bucolic? A real ...

Dog Days

by Jo Page August 10, 2011

  I am not one to complain about summer. We get so little of it that I took a vow, some years back, never to bemoan the heat, the humidity, the roadwork, etc. Instead, I allow ...

Nature’s Candy

by Amy Halloran June 1, 2011

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Summer to me is trapping the sunlike shape and flavor of peaches in jars. In the years I’ve missed the ritual of buying a case of peaches and turning them into jam, the season felt ...

Out of the Garden and into the Fire

by B.A. Nilsson June 1, 2011

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Nothing brings out the flavor of a costly cut of meat like charcoal grilling, but I’m enough of a pinchfist to be distressed by the amount of coals and grill space I waste each time ...