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Month: August 2008

  • Hot Milk Cake

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    Ingredients2 cups granulated white sugar3 eggs, beaten¼ pound butter (1 stick)1 cup milk (Skim or Whole)2 cups flour2 teaspoons baking powder1 teaspoon vanillaMethodHeat milk and butter in a saucepan until butter is melted, remove from heat.Beat eggs, vanilla and sugar until light yellow.Sift flour and baking powder.  Add to sugar and eggs.  Add hot milk…

  • Weeds

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    A weed is but an unloved flower.Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  • Centered

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    Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom, which flows through your life.  Then, without effort, you are impelled to truth and to perfect contentment.Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Light

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    There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton

  • Winning

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    Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.Senator Dianne Feinstein

  • Visa

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    After Michael Phelps won his seventh gold medal, tying Mark Spitz’s record, Visa (one of Michael’s sponsors) immediately broke out a congratulatory commercial.We’re sitting here eagerly waiting for the relay where Phelps could win an unprecedented eighth gold and wondered what the Visa commercial will say if he achieves that.  I hope it has fireworks.I…

  • On treating a President like Royalty

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    George Bush keeps forgetting that he only gets to live for a little while in the White House, and that he’s not the permanent occupant.  There’s an excellent essay about our schizophrenic behavior towards our President because we keep forgetting that he’s not Royalty, as exposed by the interchange between George Bush and Jim Webb.My…