ok, so it is nearly 6:00 pm on a friday evening, and i am home alone with no clue where everybody else is (except for ecw who is at work....) my mother picked up everybody else ages ago...who knows..........i have gone through the papers, and started in on a reread of an old favorite....laurie colwin's home cooking......laurie used to write regular columns in gourmet magazine until her untimely death in a traffic accident.......although her column ran 1 full year after the accident because she had turned in 12 columns at once just before her demise......she also writes/wrote novels.....i have 2 of them......anyway.....she writes like i think.........so it is a pleasure to reread her first book about cooking..........at the point where she recalled that she no longer keeps kosher, i was prompted to blog.........because this revelation about someone already dead and with god met with profound sadness.........if laurie colwin, who lived for food no longer kept kosher, then who IS still keeping kosher? .......as a sunday school teacher as well as a foodie, i am intrigued by the notion of foods deemed acceptable or unacceptable by god.......of course, in the new testament, peter has a vision that is interpreted as all foods being clean...so i do not feel obligated to be kosher...but still, it does my heart good to know that someone is still following the genesis and exodus and numbers rules for food.........as i understand it, Joe Lieberman keeps kosher.......i may have to vote for hime based on that quality along...though i would rather vote for either howard dean or wesley clark.....maybe they could form a triumverate...like in ancient rome..........clark could be pompey...........

ah well,..........today ms. dickey ate at trc, and took time to express her sadness that she will not be at dhs to teach scw in ap english next year.......she went on to say that she enjoyed having andrew, and sensed that neither he nor rowan appreciated praise in class, as it made them appear to be smart kids/nerds....a quality that both despised...........that is an observation that i have made myself.....that acw was never comfortable with his brilliance...........rather, he was embarassed by it........of course, now that his ap english exam score of 5 allowed him great latitude when it came to dropping calculus twice..........he may be glad that he paid attention at some point when english was being discussed at dhs........

back to laurie colwin, whose prose reminds me of a cozy blog.....she is someone that i wish i had met, and someone whose kitchen i regretfully have never seen.......well, i have seen it as it is mine.... neither of us have a food processor, or any other gadgets that require storage..........