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This is really beautiful in words and spirit, and I am a little sad – there are only 10 more
Thank you.
It’s going to be WEIRD not to be doing a poem a day. But I do have my next project planned.
Oh, the memories of years gone by … and there are some today who don’t even know what oleo is or was.
I still have all of my mother recipes handwritten in pencil on scraps of different kinds of paper. I’ve been slowly transferring them to the computer to eventually turn them into a cook book for her grandchildren.
That’s a wonderful project!
Most of my mother’s best recipes aren’t written down, at least not in her hand. She had them in her head. Some of them I wrote down as she told them to me, but most are in MY head, too. I do have some of her handwritten recipes, and a ton of them she clipped from magazines. I did notice as I went through her file that, as in this one, she used “oleo.” It made me smile.
I don’t know who Helen L is, but Dorothy is my mother, Arliss is the sister closest to her in age, and Jackie is Arliss’s daughter.
Such simple things that mean so much.
It’s true.