Autumn has arrived. With the hounds of winter presumably on its traces. The leaves have now mostly turned and dropped, always lovely to watch yet also somehow melancholic. So, while enjoying the seasonal spectacular, we turned our attention to the coming winter, and our preparations for it. […]
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Local Republican candidate Paul Tuzzolino claims to be “fiercely independent.” However, given his party affiliation, and his chosen party’s fealty to the twice-impeached, four-times-indicted convicted rapist, and the variety of fierce independence his Republican cohorts display, we have a right to demand that he put a finer point on his self-congratulatory assertion. […] For the first time in over half a century I have (a) my very own resident groundhog but (b) no designated local season prognosticator of the woodchuck persuasion. Hence a dilemma I faced this past February: Who to believe about the advent of spring? […] |
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Straight Outta Stone Ridge: Home Cooking
The point of my discursions into food budgeting comes down to this: All else being equal, it’s possible in 2023 to eat well and healthily on a modest budget — including the standard amount allocated by the SNAP system. But the key phrase here is “All else being equal.” Which it’s not. […]