Ruminations

Yesterday marked both the completion of Emily’s 15th year and Mother’s Day, one of those Hallmark-manufactured holidays where, unless you’re a Mother, the best you can hope to do is break even.
We started Mother’s Day with a parade of presents — coffee, chocolate, a piece of wood with nails in the shape of a smiley [...]

Here’s another of my favorite salsa recipes: salsa cruda, or pico de gallo. This one actually violates one of my salsa-making commandments — get all the taste buds firing at once — by leaving out anything bitter. You can add garlic to fill that gap, but I find this combination without the garlic very nice.

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This evening Kathy and I went to Clear Springs Seafood Restaurant for a special dinner. I had never been, and was fairly taken with the huge barn, the nice site, and the giant baskets of onion rings. Afterward, we went and walked around Landa Park, one of my favorite places in New Braunfels.
While walking along [...]