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Hôtel Lastiry
Address : Place du Village F - 64310 Sare
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The Lastiry Hotel is situated on the place of the village of Sare, classified one of the most beautiful villages of France, in the heart of the French Basque country. The hotel is housed in a 17th century house and was completely renovated in 2008 while maintaining its authentic charm. Rooms are pleasant, air-conditioned, and equipped with the latest technologies such as LCD TV and Wi-FI. The restaurant of Lastiry is well known for its gastronomic cuisine in the region and uses local produce. Hotel Lastiry is located just 20 kilometres from Saint Jean de Luz and its beaches and 8 kilometres from the golf course. It is 3 kilometres from the Rhune railway and 1 km from the prehistoric caves of Sare.
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What do you want for Christmas?
For me, I would like to see Christmas at the right time of year and not have to navigate around Christmas Trees in the big DIY chains and Garden Centres at the end of October! Do people really buy and decorate a proper Christmas tree that early? It must look very nude by Christmas Day.
Oh! and what I really would like for Chritmas is a lotto win and perhaps a new set of golf clubs.......I have been good all year, promise!
2 weeks of peace and quiet
I have simple tastes - I'd be delighted to discover that Santa had delivered me 2 full weeks of peace and quiet, no work, no clients wanting something, no studying, no invitations to anything (tis the season of bah humbug in my house!). Just 2 glorious weeks of rolling out of bed when I fancied (hungry cats permitting), a slow amble with pooch, and spending the rest of each day catching up with unread books and unwatched dvds, interspersed with cooking from scratch, baking and eating. Bliss..... Oh and a covering of snow would be the icing on the Chrimbo cake!
But I'm agreed with Polly on Christmas being in December and not July onwards. And a win on the Lotto - then lots of animals could be spoilt for Chrimbo and not just mine :)
How about
How about:
- HMRC to annouce that all accountants have to be qualified to register as agents; and
- HMRC to announce that all taxpayers must use an accountant.
Could make for a profitable 2012 :)
Apart from world peace and an end to poverty you mean!
I would like the SA deadline moved to 30th November.
Our Christmas tree goes up the weekend before Christmas and comes back down just before 12th night, although the wife does love Christmas songs and carols and starts playing them by about July. I can't really say much as she works so hard with all the preparations, the cooking and sorting out all the presents I daren't risk a work to rule - :o)
A new mountain bike
Sod World Peace
I think someones going to be disappointed ...
... they're bound to be on the naughty list now!
To be snowed in
A perfect excuse to work from home cozy and comfy with a mug of eggnog. Will have to fight the cat for a spot on the sofa though...
to relax
... and OD on old films, music, reading, and soak up the Christmas 'cheer'.
I don't agree with you, OGA, over a November deadline for SA's. I get truly bored in February and March because there is nothing much to do, so another 2 months of boredom would probably shove me over the edge.
all I want for xmas...
Flash's christmas sounds wonderful. I would also like a nice bottle of port (Taylors LBV - yum!) a block of good brie, some fresh bread, a new subscription to The Economist and a new pair of M&S cords in olive green.
all I want for xmas is you - not :)
You'd be welcome to join me Steve but that would bring the human count up to an unacceptably high 2 so alas..... I'm with you on the brie and bread though :o)
I'd loved to be snowed in - preferably with my neighbours snowed in somewhere else so I didn't have to see them and so that they didn't mess up the pristine whiteness. You can't beat sitting gazing out of the window while the snow is falling - it's the best sight ever.
I'm impressed you have a cat Henry - you've shot sky high in my estimation :)
Of course he has Flash ...
... have you never heard of Henry's cat?
(this has reminded me why holidays are a bad thing - lol)
A mig welder ...
having just completed a six week welding course at college I can't wait to start practising on Scarlett (my X19).
I wonder if I went to the right careers advisor?!
Wonder if you bought the right car
having just completed a six week welding course at college I can't wait to start practising on Scarlett (my X19).
I wonder if I went to the right careers advisor?!
X19's were known as rust buckets from the moment they rolled off the line - lol
Its the right car ...
to practice welding on! Actually, any X19's left on the road (about 200 in the UK) have probably been garaged all their life otherwise they wouldn't be here at all. Mine is very good with just a few scabs here and there to attend to.
You'd be welcome to join me Steve but that would bring the human count up to an unacceptably high 2 so alas..... I'm with you on the brie and bread though :o)
I'd loved to be snowed in - preferably with my neighbours snowed in somewhere else so I didn't have to see them.
That sounds like a perfect Christmas to me... Maybe I could come over and we could both be on our own together, I'll take your east wing and you can have the west. I don't take up much room, being a duck and all.
I could find you a lovely slot in the freezer, or if you prefer something a little warmer I'm planning on cleaning the oven out ready for guests :) (I'm going to feel guilty now eating your relatives)
I don't have wings unfortunately, just arms. But I'd welcome you with them open. I'd even get the doggy paddling pool out for you so you could have your own pond!
It's good to know though that not everybody feels the need to be out partying the whole time.
ps OGA - I'd forgotten Henry's Cat!
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Last month, I saw some folks posted their goals for the month of April and all month long I thought to myself, "I should do that" So here are my goals for the month of May.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
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Its been a while since I've blogged. I had a difficult end of last year with a back injury which took me out of my trainers gym and into physical therapy. This happened while I watched my mom lose what was left of her abilities. In a nursing ... Read more
Saturday, September 03, 2011
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I was nervous about going on my Alaska cruise. I didn�t want to gain weight, but I also wanted to enjoy myself. I read a helpful thread on Sparkpeople that gave me some wise tips which I used, coupled with a few of my own ideas. I was mentall... Read more
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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Even though I am only 33% to my goal weight, and I've been up and down here for a couple of years, it struck me this morning that these are the happiest days of my life. At 50, I have finally become the person I have always wanted to be.
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Friday, August 05, 2011
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So happy today to be wearing a pair of pants that havent seen the outside of my closet for 2 years. They are ahem....slightly tighter than I'd like but they look good. :)
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
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Hotter than the blazes here and everywhere this week and we all knew it was going to be, so I planned a series of dinners that could be cooked on the grill, as "pouch cooking" from hungry girl... www.hungry-girl.com/weighin/show/2051... Read more
Saturday, July 16, 2011
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So after 5 days "on the grid" I was feeling in control enough to get on the scale, and had a 2.5 weight gain, which nearly negates the work I have done here in the past. I have been reading other blogs and have even peeked at some food trackers... Read more
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Being a member since 2009 and on my tracker having only lost 2.6 pounds is really making me analyze all I have done on this site. I've probably gained and lost the same 10 pounds since I joined. On the plus side, my physical activity level is... Read more
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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So depressing to be back onto this to read my weight lost goals with a starting weight of 167, now I am 171. ( Was 175) I did go on HRT which doesnt help much. but I am really trying to be serious now.
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My friend is starting up a 40 gallon marine fish only tank. He wanted to put a trickle filter on the thing but changed his mind cause of the cost. He thinks of going with two big sponges with powerheads. Are sopnge filters a good idea for saltwater aquariums? I'm a freshwater guy so don't know much about marine. What do you think?
Thanks for any input
Sponge filters can be ok if used properly and not overpowering, but I wouldn't I suggest that be the only filtration. Your friend would do best to add a canister filter, hang on filter, etc.
Part of what will determine what is enough filtration is size of the tank, animals within (what and how many), feeding habits, and how often maintenance is done. To run a healthy saltwater tank with only a sponge/powerhead combo, water changes would have to be frequent and feedings not overwhelming. Lots of live rock and live sand, very few animals... the idea is to keep the waste level in proportion to what the natural biological filtratin can handle and and to help it with lots of small water changes regularly.
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still for sale $185,000.00
Dolby Digital adverts in lobby. Still for sale. Sign in lobby door: F.C. Tucker/Kerstiens Realty, 812-630-3800, 812-482-1424. Looks like the canopy was originally open beneath and had exterior walls added. Ticket booth/kiosk is immediately inside those doors and has ornate gold top. Not much room in that miniscule space. People would have undoubtedly had to stand outside with the door continuously open to buy a ticket. From a small portion of exterior architecture, it loks like the back wall may be deeply curved. Also, it looks like the area that would be under the stage has been finished and is a store front on the back of the theatre on Newton street. A dog grooming place. Door immediately has inside curved stairs down. Storefront consists of windows from the level of the sidewalk up to your hip.
Status: Nothing's changed. I was told today by someone who'd been inside of it with the realtor on a tour about 6 years ago that the insides are nothing fancy, the booth equipment is gone but the chairs are still there but beat up.
He also said one thing that kept them afloat (other than being in Jasper [a moviegoing town]) was that they had Titanic.
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Oh my God, I did not even catch that. So.. yes, no pun intended.
That did used to be open beneath the canopy, and you did indeed have to stand outside on the sidewalk to buy tickets at the Astra. The first time I ever saw 'Bambi' was at the Astra, in 1966 or '67. I remember vividly standing with my mother in line, partway down the block in front of those shops on the right hand side. IIRC, once you got your ticket, there were doors on either side of the ticket kiosk to enter the lobby. Once you got inside, you were in a long, narrow lobby, with lots of gold. The refreshment counter was to your left, the doors to the main auditorium to your right. The main auditorium had these art deco lighting fixtures that were dimly lit with pastels during the movie. They'd slowly change colors over the course of ten or fifteen minutes. The unusual yellow brick of which the theater is built was produced in the neighboring town of Huntingburg, where I grew up.
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This month, we continue our conversation with Andrea Rosanoff, Ph.D., about the great importance of the mineral magnesium. In Part One (February 2015), we discussed the importance of magnesium for producing the energy needed for most of the body's life processes. In Part Two (March 2015), we chatted about how magnesium is needed for the utilization of vitamin D, itself an extremely important vitamin/hormone. This biochemical importance begs the question: Does magnesium make a measurable difference in terms of health and longevity? This month, Dr. Rosanoff discusses the role of magnesium and longevity.
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Our favorite well-meaning jailbird Jenelle Evans gave up custody of her son during Season 1 of Teen Mom 2, and she's been fighting for her rights ever since.
Jenelle's hilarious mama, Barbara Evans, currently has temporary custody of Jace, but this ballsy lady has a strict set of rules when it comes to how much her precious grand-kiddo gets to hang out with his mom. Which is understandable considering that Jenelle spent the better part of 2012 addicted to hard drugs...
The good news? Jenelle's been clean n' sober since November 2012, she's currently in a stable relationship with her new boyfriend, Nathan Griffith, and she just bought her very first home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina! Of course, Jace and Barbara live in North Carolina, but fear not! After years of arguing, Babs has finally agreed to let Jace spend the night at his mom's house.
"I have a soul mate now that took years to find but I finally found him. My mom approves of him and so does my son," Jenelle tweeted on June 23, adding "Jace is now allowed to Stay with me on the weekends as soon as his room is setup. Jace loves the new house and is super excited to come down next weekend."
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Well, i also congratulate those who cud NOT make it to NIFT, Hyd but obviously, i am not waiting eagerly for them!
hey everyone!
Congrats to all of you and Welcome to NIFT! and for all those who made it to Hyd., i am waiting eagerly. For any probs or queries, u can always PM me...
sorry for replying late guys. at our time, the gd/pi was only conducted in the delhi center and its a very cool interview, just that u shudn't lose ur cool at any point of time. this year, they're gonna stress on communication skills. and its a very good idea to meet ur seniors...u shud do that!
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sorry for replying so late but my exams were on. i agree that nift conducts interviews very late but we cannot help it yaar. in a way, this is good also, coz by then many students have already taken admissions so u have a good chance of getting thru. as far as the process is concerned, there's no point to worry abt. in fact this will the easiest gd/pi. my topic last year was - "india shining - myth or reality". others had similar topics like "is mtv spoiling indian culture" etc etc. the topics on which u can easily speak. interview lasts hardly 5 to 10 minutes. very comfortable interview. a panel of 5 to 8 interviewers. they only ask u questions about ur background and general knowledge. they only thing u shud look for is that u shud be clear why do u want to go for this course? in my case they saw the objective on my resume and kept asking me if my objective would be satisfied by pursuing this course...by the way, don't forget to carry ur resume even if they don't specify, they ask u to make it there itself. they didn't ask me a single question ant my background ( i am from computers background). to others they asked a few questions abt their background. u shud also see that u know abt a few brands and a few designers (altho this is not very imp.)
any other queries...i am always there...
I look forward to see all of u as my juniors....By the way, any query, u can always PM me...
Do you prefer to buy Apparels online? If No, why?
as far as i know, its the same form for all the courses in NIFT. u just have to circle the course u r applying for in the form itself. the forms are available in UTI for Rs.200/= and u have to attach a dd of, i think, Rs.900 with the filled up form. Hurry up guys, the last date is 10th only, and the exam is on 6th Feb....
PG in technology is for ppl of engineering background and idtechnical in nature. it deals with the technicalities of garment industry...pg in manangement is pure management stuff...
i donno much abt the placements of pg in tech but management does have a good placement record
A VERY VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU :infinity: !!!
its gr8 being a part of PG!
well, this course is definitely different from normal MBA courses.
just like IIFT specializes in International Management, this course is all abt fashion industry. i checked the prospectus of other b-schools to compare our syllabus and found out that we are studying most of the main topics from all the specializations, i.e. we are not specializing in any particular thing like finance, marketing etc. we are doing a bit of everything and applying it all in the fashion industry...


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Thanks to the hyper-vigilant folks over at Fox News, we can now add The Muppets to the long list of children's characters, like Sponge Bob, Grover from Sesame Street, and the Teletubbies, who're subverting the minds of our nation's youth. At least someone cares about the children. But did you know that most, if not all, children's characters are super-communists? They are!
The Smurfs
Their motto may as well be: "From each Smurf according to his ability, to each Smurf according to his name." Each Smurf lives in an identical house, and has equal possessions. And Papa Smurf is basically a three-apples-high Marx with an obvious Red Hat. The PROOF is everywhere.
Bob The Builder
Purportedly a symbol of capitalist enterprise, the truth is far more disturbing. Bob's catchphrase is "Can we fix it?" And the other characters always reply, "Yes we can!" Hmm…where have we heard that before? Oh, right: OUR COMMUNIST PRESIDENT. And Herman Cain gets flack for cribbing Pokemon.
My Little Pony
The setting for this subversive kids show is Equestria, which is ruled over by the dictatorial Princesses Luna and Celestia who, as their names suggest, raise and lower the sun. It's a magical cult-of-personality kingdom on par with N. Korea, where the Pegasus ponies control the weather, just like Kim Jong Il.
Santa Claus
Taking the Christ out of Christmas for nearly two centuries, Comrade Claus is anything but a capitalist mogul. The bearded man in RED Occupies the North Pole — probably paying no rent and raping elves — and makes absolutely no money from his chilly, Chinese-esque slave labor camp. And "naughty" children are given coal; what kind of Greenwashing is this?
Like The Muppets, the Jesus isn't strictly for kids, but what does he teach our children? "Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth"? I'm sorry, no, not unless the meek stop whining and get a damn job! The Sermon on the Mount may as well have been written by Friedrich Engels.
Dora the Explorer
Look, no one knows where she's from. But notice she's never said an unkind word about Hugo Chavez. Coincidence? And have you ever seen her long-form birth certificate? I didn't think so, and that probably means SOMETHING.
Fox & Friends
This is one of those early morning children's shows that I'm admittedly not too familiar with. But there's a puppet featured on the show called Gretchen Carlson, and though people actually believe it represents bona fide conservatism, it's pretty clear that it's just a straw-puppet meant to make conservatives appear absurd, and elevate communist detractors.
Fraggle Rock
Another Jim Henson creation, its deeply rooted anti-capitalist message should surprise no one. The romanticized proletariat class, the Doozers, are forever building elaborate constructions, which the bourgeoisie Fraggles are forever eating. If not outright communist, the series did much to promote class warfare.
For more examples of communist children's characters, JUST OPEN YOUR EYES, PEOPLE!


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After the news seeped out there last week, Chevrolet uncovered the official strength statistics for your 2014 Corvette Stingray these days: 460 hewlett packard, and 465 lb. -ft. of torque, which the business called the maximum ever for your base-model Vette : although customers will need an extra $1, 195 to get that target.
Chevy has been doing a dance of seven veils with some of the Corvette's crucial statistics considering that its expose in January; we all still don't know energy economy or even a specific 0-60 mph time over and above "less than four secs. " The strength uncovered these days was in range with quotes, but the top amounts only apply at models with all the optional sports exhaust system; with all the stock water lines in place, the newest Vette makes 455 hewlett packard and 460 lb. -ft. from its 6. 2-liter V-8.
The amounts caused several consternation among the Vette-leaning counter racers; in the world of muscle tissue and efficiency cars, 400 hewlett packard provides started to seem reduced, what with all the top-end Camaro and Mustang both creating greater than 500 hewlett packard. Yet due to the light-weight and chassis, the Vette ought to be one of the fastest cars on earth : and for its $52, 000 price, one of the better efficiency bargains even when its strength statistics don't complement some of the heavyweights. We should know more within a couple of months when Chevy enables journalists driving the first time.


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Great advice, and some very impressive lifting (2x bodyweight for 3 sets of 30 is near unbelievable!), but the above information is wrong. Holding one's breath is called the valsalva maneuver, and is exactly what you should be doing when lifting a heavy object, and is, in fact, what the human body will do naturally.It is vital to remember to breath properly during each rep, whether doing squats or leg presses. Remember to exhale while you press the weight up. Never, ever, hold your breath and strain to make the rep. If you have to do this to lift the weight, stop and decrease the weight. Very bad things can happen otherwise, things that will irrevocably halt your career.
Imagine what you would do if you had to get a car rolling; shoulder down, big breath in and push until you're red in the face. This maneuver increases intrathoracic pressure, stabilizes the spine, and is the only to safely lift the weight. Most people will, to some extent or another, however, breathe, grunt, scream, moan, etc., during the end portion of the lift, but thoracic pressure is never lost.


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February 4th, 2014
In recent years, sugar – more so than fat – has been receiving the bulk of the blame for our deteriorating health.
Most of us know we consume more sugar than we should. Let's be honest, it's hard not to.
The (new) bad news is that sugar does more damage to our bodies than we originally thought. It was once considered to be just another marker for an unhealthy diet and obesity. Now sugar is considered an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, as well as many other chronic diseases, according a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
November 4th, 2013
Editor's note: David Frum, a CNN contributor, is a contributing editor at The Daily Beast. He is the author of eight books, including a new novel, "Patriots," and a post-election e-book, "Why Romney Lost." Frum was a special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002.
The Mexican Senate has just passed, 72-2, an 8% tax on candy, chips and other high-calorie foods. It continues to debate a special additional tax of about 8 cents per liter on sugary soda.
You can understand why Mexican leaders are worried about their nation's eating habits. Mexicans consume more sugary soft drinks per person than any other people on earth. Mexico suffers the highest incidence of diabetes among the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Mexicans are more likely to be obese even than Americans, the next runner-up.
September 27th, 2013
Back in the day, Bill Clinton was the highest-profile devotee of the highest-calorie items on the McDonald's menu.
What a difference a few years - and a quadruple-bypass surgery - can make.
The fast food giant and the former Big Mac fan-in-chief announced they were coming together Thursday to help fight the scourge of obesity.
Instead of just French fries to go with your value meal, McDonald's soon will offer you a choice of a side salad, fruit or vegetable as a substitute.
They also pledged to promote only water, milk and juice as the beverage that comes with a Happy Meal and to use Happy Meal packaging to "generate excitement" for fruits and vegetables.
Read - Bill Clinton and McDonald's: Let's forgo the fries and fight the fat
August 15th, 2013
A new Coke ad in USA Today highlights 40 years worth of studies showing that aspartame (the sweetener in many of Coke's lower-calorie drinks) is safe to consume. Dr. Sanjay Gupta responds.
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I ovulated 9 days ago on Mother's Day. We had sex on both days before I ovulated and one day after. 4 days ago(5dpo) I had some cramping(Implantation). Then yesterday I woke up not feeling well. All day i had sore boobs, nauseous, sensitive to smell, and very thirsty and urinating frequently. I know it's rare to have symptoms and find out this early but I really think I am pregnant. I feel just like I did several months ago when I was pregnant, which unfortunately ended in a miscarriage in February :( Anyway, I took a Clearblue digital this morning and it said "not pregnant" (which I expected because my period is not due for another 5 days). I took the test apart to see the strip inside and this is the result: http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Navia521/media/Pregnant_zps87fb7c7f.jpg.html It showed up within the time frame and I can clearly see 2 lines It's my birthday today (25 woo hoo!) so I really want this to be true! Based on my symptoms and this test do you think I'm pregnant?
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You have compromised the test and can't go by what you see. It could be pms, too. I know how you feel it took me a year to get pregnant and I felt all the pregnancy symptoms all the time and very early on, only to find out I was not pregnant. Wait until / if you miss your period and test again. Good luck!!!!posted 05/22/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
wait until your late to test. if negative and no period for another 2 weeks retest and you will have your final answer :)..i use the e.p.t its more accurate than hospital tests.posted 05/21/2013 by tashstar
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Proteas all-rounder Albie Morkel will undergo a late fitness test on Thursday morning after suffering from spasms and a stiff lower back during the Proteas' warm-up match against New Zealand on Monday.
Morkel went for an MRI scan in Colombo Tuesday morning, which produced inconclusive results.
"Albie woke up feeling much better this morning (Tuesday) but we sent him for an MRI scan as a precautionary measure," team manager, Dr Mohammed Moosajee said.
"The results from the scan are inconclusive but the positive aspect for us is that he is improving by the day.
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Ethan Canin (1960) was born in Michigan, but spent his childhood in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California, all places his family moved for his father's work as a musician. After graduating with a degree in English from Stanford University, where he had originally pursued a major in mechanical engineering, Canin came directly to the Writers Workshop, earning his MFA in 1984. At that point, realizing how difficult it would be to earn a living as a writer, he decided to become a doctor. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1994 and began his medical residency at the University of California San Francisco. Halfway through his residency, Canin decided to leave medicine and return to writing. With two friends, he founded the San Francisco Writers Grotto, now a thriving community of writers, journalists, and filmmakers. In 1997, he returned to Iowa City as a visiting lecturer at the Workshop and the following year was hired as a member of the permanent faculty.
Highly regarded as both a novelist and a short story writer, Canin is the author of six books of fiction, including the novels America America, Carry Me Across the Water, and For Kings and Planets, and the story collections The Palace Thief and Emperor of the Air, a debut that brought him wide acclaim. That first collection was awarded a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, an honor Canin shares with such writers as Robert Penn Warren, Elizabeth Bishop, and Philip Roth. His second collection The Palace Thief, a group of four novellas, earned him the California Book Award and nominations for the International IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award and the PEN West Book Prize. His 2008 novel America America was also nominated for the IMPAC-Dublin prize. All of his books have been national bestsellers and widely translated. Canin's short stories have appeared not only in such publications as The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review, Granta, and The New Yorker, but also in dozens of anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short Fiction. They have also been the basis for four movies, including "The Emperor's Club," starring Kevin Kline, and "Beautiful Ohio," starring William Hurt.
In 1999, Canin was selected by The New Yorker as one of "Twenty Writers for the New Millennium" and by Granta for its list of "Best Young American Novelists." Among his other honors are the Henfield-Transatlantic Review Prize, an Ingram-Merrill Foundation Fellowship, the Lyndhurst Prize, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Currently the F. Wendell Miller Professor of English at the Writers' Workshop, he is also a literary advisor to the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. He and his wife, Barbara, have three children and split their time between Iowa City and the woods of northern Michigan.
Smallness and Invention; Or, What I Learned at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
This essay originally appeared in The Eleventh Draft, an anthology of writers' reflections on craft and the writing life, edited by former Iowa Writers' Workshop director Frank Conroy. Canin tells the story of what brought him to Iowa and how the lessons of his experience here didn't become clear until later.
I came to the Iowa Writers' workshop in August of 1982, having driven across the country in a '67 Mustang hardtop that was gradually becoming a convertible. The stitching was coming out in the roof upholstery, and huge panels of it hung down inside the car like shades, which I pinned up again with safety pins so that I could see out the windows. I was 22 years old. I had bought the Mustang with money I had received that year from Redbook Magazine for a story I had written in a writing class at Stanford University, where until June I had been an undergraduate. I was too young to be coming to Iowa.
I didn't know it at the time. At the time it seemed like an adventure, not just to be moving to an unheard-of place a thousand miles from any ocean – people laughed when I told them: they said "Io-wa?" – but to be pursuing what had come to me in a late-night romantic reverie as my true calling. I had started out college as a mechanical engineering major, had taken physics and math classes for my first two years before idly stumbling one day onto the collected stories of John Cheever, a thick red paperback book that changed my life. Perhaps it was the normal maturation of a brain, but suddenly as a sophomore in college I decided that the fixity of engineering, the precision and derivability that had so drawn me as an eighteen-year-old, was now limiting. I wanted a field in which nobody, not even the experts, knew anything. This field, I understood, was writing.
Well, perhaps it was not writing but literature. That year in a required lecture course I had read Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground, Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, and Gide's The Immoralist, books I would never in ten lifetimes have read on my own. Yet all of them had captured me with the power of their assertions –assertions that, most fascinating of all, seemed un-provable. Here were dark claims about the human soul, put forward with no basis at all except hunch, and here was I, trained in the rigor of mathematical proof and logical progression, absolutely seized with the truth – or at least the possibility of truth – of what was before me. Flipping through the Engineering section of the course catalog one day I wandered forward a single page to English. There I found a course: creative writing.
A few weeks later I sat down on my first day and watched our instructor, who rumor had it was a published writer, twist rubber bands over his hands until his knuckles turned white. The students around me were a different sort – many looked sad, somehow dissipated in their features, uniformly poorly dressed, the way I hadn't seen anyone look in my engineering courses. I had been reading the Cheever stories every night before sleep, and in my narrow dormitory bed had exalted in his prose.
Her smile, her naked shoulder had begun to trouble the indecipherable shapes and symbols that are the touchstones of desire, and the light from the lamp seemed to brighten and give off heat and shed that unaccountable complacency, that benevolence, that the spring sunlight brings to all kinds of fatigue and despair. Desire for her delighted and confused him. Here it was, here it all was, and the shine of the gold seemed to him then to be all around her arms. The Pot of Gold," from The Stories of John CheeverHere it was for me, too, here it all was – reading until early morning while across the room my roommate snored his plain old snores. I felt every night that in my hands was the key to another world.
How could I justify such softness? An engineer, a student who had always disdained the lack of rigor outside the sciences? In my creative writing class I decided that I would write like John Cheever, that I would seek those elongated phrases, those elided leaps into the world of ardor and transcendence and unearthed human longing that shone in his stories like gems beneath a stream. Here was the chance to unbridle myself of the rigor I had loved and, only now, I realized, had also always wanted to shed. How far superior this raw emotion seemed to me. How much more profound and complex a truth. Exultant from my reading, I sat down and wrote a story.
It was dismal. My teacher grimaced when he handed it back to me. It contained elements of Cheever, elements of James Joyce's "Araby," which I had read that year as well, and elements of Gide – a maudlin poem in prose celebrating the unlocked door to the human spirit. My teacher wrote, "Perhaps you should give us a few details."
Perhaps, indeed. I was wounded, but went back to Cheever. There again I found rejuvenation, found his unbridled emotion electrifying:
. . . It seemed then to be a sense of pride, an aureole of lightness and valor, a kind of crown. He seemed to hold the crown up to scrutiny and what did he find? Was it merely some ancient fear of Daddy's razor strap and Mummy's scowl, some childish subservience to the bullying world? He well know his instincts to be rowdy, abundant, and indiscreet and had he allowed the world and all its tongues to impose upon him some structure of transparent values for the convenience of a conservative economy, an established church, and a bellicose army and navy? He seemed to hold the crown, hold it up into the light, it seemed made of light and what it seemed to mean was the genuine and tonic taste of exaltation and grief.
"The World of Apples," from The Stories of John Cheever. With that emotion coursing through me again, I sat down and wrote another story. Again dismal. It was pure emotion, I see now when I look at it, a story at a fever pitch from the opening words. Handing it back, my teacher grimaced again.AN ENGINEER LOOKS AT WRITING
So I went back one more time to Cheever. This time I looked more closely at how he wrote. Perhaps such a reflex for analysis was a remnant of what I had learned in my engineering classes, that even the most complex motion could be understood when broken into its component vectors. I began typing out some of Cheever's great paragraphs. I simply sat down and typed:
. . . Alice strode to the door, opened it, and went out. A woman came in, a stranger looking for the toilet. Laura lighted a cigarette and waited in the bedroom for about ten minutes before she went back to the party. The Holinsheds had gone. She got a drink and sat down and tried to talk, but she couldn't keep her mind on what she was saying.
The hunt, the search for money that had seemed to her natural, amiable, and fair when they first committed themselves to it, now seemed like a hazardous and piratical voyage. She had thought, earlier in the evening, of the missing. She thought now of the missing again. Adversity and failure accounted for more than half of them, as if beneath the amenities in the pretty room a keen race were in progress, in which the loser's forfeits were extreme. Laura felt cold. She picked the ice out of her drink with her fingers and put it in a flower vase, but the whiskey didn't warm her. She asked Ralph to take her home.
"The Pot of Gold," from The Stories of John Cheever
In my own development as a writer, I suppose this was as important an exercise as I have ever performed.
I discovered two things: first, that Cheever's great, epiphanic leaps were almost invariably preceded (and followed, it turned out) by paragraphs that accumulated small, accurate detail. Initially, this seemed like a profoundly important discovery to me. I could absolutely engage the fever pitch of emotion that had seduced me into writing in the first place, so long as I balanced it with large amounts of pedestrian observation. I went back to the stories I had written and added detail, surrounded my epiphanies with line after line of small-scale particulars.
But this alone did not make what I'd written much better, and it was here that I made my second, although admittedly in Cheever's case, unproved discovery: that the progression from detail to epiphany is not a technique used merely for its effect on the reader, but that this method is in fact how a writer discovers his own material.
This changed my writing forever. To put it another way: I had chanced upon the discovery that for the writer it is not moral pondering or grand emotion that are the entrance to a story, but detail and small event. The next story I wrote I started not with the feeling of grandeur that had been my inspiration before, but with a narrowed concentration. I began by imagining a single act: a man going for a swim in San Francisco Bay. I didn't start with any message in mind; I didn't start with any climactic emotions swirling around me; I just started with the swim. And what I discovered was that as I wrote these details, as I imagined myself striding down to the dirty shore, as I imagined myself plunging into the chilly water, stroking against the hard current, the story itself came to me. And it was not the story I intended. It seemed to be a story that came not from me but from this character, a salty old guy who swam in cold water. And the amazing thing was, by the end, I had actually pitched myself up to the same feverish swirl that had been my old inspiration. The difference was that this time the fever was the result of the story and not the cause. I remember that the story was actually easy to write (perhaps the last one, alas, that I will ever know). And Redbook published it. And I bought myself the Mustang.
After that, I came to Iowa.
I stopped writing. Almost immediately, and almost completely. Why? I think it was because suddenly, now, added to the normal difficulty of invention was the stultifying pressure of observation. Everything I wrote was going to be looked at. For a year and a half I wrote nothing. What a secret I kept, walking around this idyllic Midwestern town, going to readings, talking about literature, meeting with my peers to read their new stories and handing them my old ones, pieces that I'd written in college. I was too young at the time to realize what a gift those two years in Iowa City were, how extravagant I was to waste them, and too young also to feel the unbearable guilt that an older person would have felt at such a wasted opportunity.
But not only do we learn in unpredictable ways, we also learn unpredictable things. I didn't realize then that what I would take away from Iowa was the rudiments of one of the most important skills a writer can learn, a skill that has nothing to do with prose style or pacing or narrative structure, and everything to do with inspiration. A writer's lifelong battle, I learned that year (although I didn't know I had learned it till later), is the battle to sustain the imagination, to discover the tricks of habit that allow invention to proceed in the face of conformity. As it turns out, I had to write thirty pages or so just to reach the required length for my thesis. By now, I had come to the end of my final year, and the pressure I felt as I sat down to write was overpowering. Not only did I need to write two stories (and fast), but I needed to write two greatstories. That was actually how I felt sitting down to begin. And I only realize now that this feeling was a close cousin to the old feeling I used to have, the old frenzy of emotion that had been my initial inspiration to write.
Nothing, of course, came of my attempts. I sat frozen at the keys for hours at a time, imagining not only completed stories, but stories already on their swift flight to acclaim. I saw readers moved, as I was, to inexplicable tears. In this manner I wrote four, five, six beginnings. Then I gave up.
As it turns out, the only thing that saved me was the despondency that finally forced me to abandon grandiosity and start once again with small event. A week or two later I sat down, deflated, nearly panicked, and simply tried to write the beginning of a minor episode. I had no idea where the episode would go, but I started by imagining a man whose neighbor wants to cut down his elm tree. Nothing more. No hopes. No messages. No finale.
The only way to circumvent the pressure was to sneak in around it, I discovered, to trick the mind, which so easily runs ecstatically or dismally ahead of itself, onto a path of small invention. That path, it seems to me, is a maze, and the writer is not above it but inside it.
Starting small, I wrote two stories. And I wrote them in a couple of weeks. I had no idea whether they "worked," as my fellow students might say, but I felt at least that the events in them led one to the next. I felt that way because that was how I had written them, as a follower and not as a leader. I had learned, I now see, to enter the realm of imagination through the hidden door of small event and let the story show itself to me. This was an invaluable lesson, though I had no idea I had learned it at the time. The stories were good enough for my degree, at least, and in May of 1984 I received it, a nearly worthless sheet of black and gold, like earth against corn.
That summer I left Iowa finally and headed west again in the Mustang, windows open to what was now the powerfully nostalgic smell of a Midwestern evening. Just as I hit cruising speed on Highway 80, the roof upholstery popped loose again, flapping down across my vision, and I reached over and tacked it up with the old safety pins. Then I closed the window, pressed the accelerator to the floor, and zoomed down the incline toward Nebraska, headed toward California and the rest of my life. Little had changed, I thought. I had learned nothing in two years. I was deeply discouraged, but in my hidden heart I was also relieved, I think, to know that I did not have inside me what it would take to become a writer, to know that I would not have to follow this most difficult life that I knew then that writing was.
'I'm an old man and I want you to do something for me. Put down your bicycle,' I said. 'Put down your bicycle and look up at the stars.'
This quote is from the title story of Canin's first collection, Emperor of the Air(1988).
In a recent interview, Canin talked about some of what he has learned and some of what he has hoped to impart in his more than a decade of teaching at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
Q: What are some of the pleasures of teaching at the Workshop?
A: Teaching forces you to define your own theory of writing. When I say theory, I mean a set of practical dictates that can help a writer construct a formidable piece of work, a work that simultaneously runs the engines of plot, character, language, and idea. Over the course of a career, one learns perhaps a few dozen things about writing. I learn usually about one a year, and often from something a student does, either well or poorly. This in itself is a great boon. But what I truly love about teaching is the chance to be with people who are doing something they care about. Teaching can be miserable if your students don't care; Workshop students, in general, care deeply.
Q: What do you hope your students learn from you?
A: I hold in highest esteem the kind of knowledge that can produce other knowledge, and that's what I try to teach my students: the fundamentals of fiction writing that, if allowed to, can guide the construction of something as complex as a novel, in the way that basic knowledge of loads and forces can guide the construction of a cathedral.
Q: How has the Workshop changed in the 25 years since you were here as a student?
A: I remember my own student days here as being rancorous, competitive, and filled with disappointment and doubt. I look out at my students today and they present to me faces of energy, enthusiasm, and writerly camaraderie. I must remind myself that little, probably, has actually changed.
Q: Is there anything you miss about the old days?
A: The springtime pig roasts out at a place we called "the Workshop farm."
From Powells.com
Interview by Jill Owens
Some thoughts about Iowa, Canin's theory of fiction and his views of experimental writing are revealed in this 2008 interview posted on the Powells.com website during the summer that his most recent novel, America America, was published.
Jill: What is something that no one has asked you about this book yet that you'd be interested to have readers know?
Canin: You leave certain clues around. I think it's a book you might have to read twice to pick up all the clues. There are some answers to the mysteries in the book, but it certainly takes a second reading. I've always loved books that you get more out of on a second reading.
Jill: I've read it twice now, and I would definitely put this book in that category.
Canin: It's very gratifying to hear that. I've always admired the work of Alice Munro, partly because I know that the more I read it, the more I get out of it. Whereas there is some confusing fiction which, when you read it again, you get even more confused. There's very little art or discipline or organization behind it.
William Gass once wrote an essay about experimental fiction that I really like. It talks about experiment as a true scientific idea, meaning you made a hypothesis and you tried it to see if it was working. For a long time, experimental fiction has been synonymous with senseless fiction, but I believe in experimentation.
For example, in these last two novels, America America and Carry Me across the Water, I was experimenting with how you jump forward and backward in time. I have my own theories about it. When there's a break between scenes, I think you shouldn't go from 2:00 on Monday until 3:00 on Monday. You can go from June 1948 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to September 1990 in Brooklyn.
I think the moment of disorientation and then reorientation is actually really gratifying for a reader. At least, that's what I've always found when I read. The cost of it for some readers is going to be some confusion, but I think the gratification of it, to me at least, is worth it. Being disoriented, discombobulated, and then reoriented.
Jill: I think that's one of the pleasures of fiction generally, the initial disorientation of someone else's vision and then reorientation into it.
Canin: Exactly. It's the reader's version of the writer's empathic jump.
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From Poets & Writers
Profile by Kevin Nance
This profile came out in July 2008, just before Canin's most recent novel, America America, was published. In the interview he talks about the process of bringing a character into being.
"A tremendous amount of language that is untouched—sort of clamped by reason—I try to unclamp that a bit by getting into the character," Canin says. "I try to teach my students, 'Don't write about a character. That never works. Be that character, and then write your own story.' And that's sort of a fundamental rule or truth in fiction writing. Deeply imagine somebody else, and then everything else takes care of itself. Otherwise it's paralyzing. Questions students ask, like, 'Where should I start the story?' are answered by that. You are that person, so where would that person start it? Anyway, I try to get to that state where it's half unhinged, to see what results. I think [about] the point where I became half unhinged, especially after September 11, and that's when the book started working. But it takes a lot out of you."
This news of Canin's battle fatigue may come as a surprise to his readers, but it's familiar to his friends and former students. "It sounds in keeping with what he always said about the frustrations of being a writer—chiefly that it's a slog that's unending," says Nam Le, a 2005 alumnus of Canin's class and author of The Boat, a short story collection published by Knopf in May [2008]. "It's a very unique and unremitting type of pain to write a novel, and he expressed and communicated that quite often. That's not to say there aren't incredible pleasures and satisfactions or that he didn't inspire us to keep going through all the troubles. But he was never shy about expressing the fact that, in his mind, writing wasn't always, in the moment, pleasurable."
Bret Anthony Johnston, the author of the story collection Corpus Christi (Random House, 2004), who was a student at Iowa in 2002 and has since become a friend of Canin's, thinks his old mentor is merely being honest. "I think most writers feel the way he does, and that doubt is what fuels our best writing," Johnston says. "Ethan is very rare in that he speaks candidly, where many other writers try to obfuscate their real feelings. We're all a braid of self-doubt and bravado, and Ethan is just more honest about it than most. I, for one, don't believe for a second that this will be his last book. If I have to go over to his house and drag him to his desk every day, I'll be happy to do that."
For the complete profile: Poets and Writers
From L.A. Weekly
Interview by Michelle Huneven
This interview appeared just after Canin's third novel, Carry Me Across the Water, was published in 2001. Canin and Huneven met in person for the first time this spring when Huneven taught at the Workshop as a visiting lecturer.
MH: Your main character is a 78-year-old Jewish immigrant approaching the end of his life. How did you come to write about such a person?
EC: Kleinman came in from a group of scenes: the old guy refusing to put up his airplane-seat back; the tycoon working as a bagger; the capitalist buying art because, strangely, almost across generations, it moved him. The voice is an amalgam of the voices of my childhood, old Jewish men who knew the rules of the world – rag salesmen reincarnated in postwar America – but men who still stopped on the street to listen to a violin sonata coming from an open window: the sacred and profane of New World Jewry. Recently, my wife asked me what was in my head in putting the Japanese soldier's cave letter up on Kleinman's wall, and I told her that Kleinman has a gentle soul hidden in fear behind the fierce one. He's betrayed another gentle, aesthetic soul – the Japanese soldier's – who had hoped that the GI to discover him would be like-minded. Well, he was; but fear – and thus fierceness – triumphed. And as Kleinman grows older, he grows less afraid – there's less to lose. Thus, near death, the gentleness can re-emerge from behind the fierceness.
MH: The title is haunting and rather mysterious: Where is it from?
EC: My feeling about titles is that they should add to the mystery, deepen it, if you will, rather than answer anything. If a book or a story is solved by its title, it's too simple a work. That said, the title came to me while I was playing a spiritual on the piano for my kids – I think it's called "Shenandoah." It's a heartbreaking song, and my guess is that it's a slave's song about deliverance. Kleinman doesn't need a deliverance, exactly, but perhaps he needs something to ease his passage to the other side.
MH: How do you view and create characters in general, and how did you go about writing Kleinman in particular?
EC: Writing is an exercise in empathy. . . . It was easy enough for me to become Kleinman. I prefer what some writers call a close point of view. Diction that is the diction of the character. Observation that is the thought of the character. This kind of writing allows the leap of imagination – the becoming of the character. In grad programs, point of view is discussed at great length, and finding POV switches is a ritual hunt. But I don't care about POV breaks or switches in any sense other than that they are often symptoms of a writer who is not deeply enough imagining character. The issue of how to create character on a page is one I can and do discuss all the time in class, but it's still enigmatic to me. One truth that I always teach is that when a narrator observes another character, it is the narrator who is most deeply characterized. But all this is the trivia of the mechanics of writing. The key, I think, is to love your characters, the bad ones too.
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Novels by Ethan Canin
America America (2008)
Carry Me Across the Water (2001)
For Kings and Planets (1998)
Blue River (1991)
Collections of Stories and Novellas by Ethan Canin
The Palace Thief (1993)
Emperor of the Air (1988)
For Ethan Canin's website, go to: http://www.ethancanin.com/
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NEW YORK – A few key talking points from Joe Girardi's end-of-season media session at Yankee Stadium today…
JOE on ALEX RODRIGUEZ
- On the benching and pinch-hitting decisions: "I don't go back and second guess myself.''
- On meeting with him to review the season's finish and to get a feel for their relationship going forward: "That's on the to-do list…that will take place, it just hasn't happened yet.''
- On his status for 2013: "I expect Alex to be our everyday third baseman.''
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- On Sabathia's upcoming elbow exam with Dr. James Andrews: "You're always concerned…(but) I expect to have him in spring training.''
JOE on MARIANO RIVERA
- On if Rivera will play in 2013: "We're all going to find out soon enough…I still haven't asked him,'' though Girardi felt that the way Rivera pushed in his rehab from knee surgery was a positive sign for his return.
JOE on ANDY PETTITTE
- "There's a lot of hunger and fire in him. I still think that fire is in there.'' But recommitting to another season, "is something he's going to have to ask himself.''
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- I believe we could've won a championship with the players we had this year…but I think we're all disappointed we didn't accomplish what we wanted.''


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Democracy is not for everybody. We've learned that in the Middle East, where societies with ancient tribal roots are shown to be unprepared for a government system in which the majority rules by public vote.
Government of the people, by the people and for the people can work only if the people are informed. An electorate that does not know or understand what government is all about is an invitation to despotism.
A small but important part of the American system is the public notice: Announcements required by law to be published for all to see about the nitty-gritty of governing meetings of government bodies, bid openings, court proceedings, budget making and such.
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Tennessee's newspapers have banded together to distribute their printed public notices through a common web site, tnpublicnotice.com, at no additional charge.
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ESF 540: Ecosystems Mt Desert Island
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Mount Desert Island arguably offers the most scenic landscape in New England with its dramatic exposed, glaciated mountains rising out of the Gulf of Maine. This field study trip will focus on the island146s terrestrial ecology including its geological history, fire ecosystems, outcrop succession of its granitic balds, and the impact of visitors on its fragile, coastal heath communities. Cost: approximately $160 for food, camping, and transportation fees.


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My Grandmother (AKA Grandma Dot) knew a lot, about a lot of things. Which is not surprising really when you consider that she was an intelligent and well educated woman who was born in the late 1800's and lived from the time of horse drawn transportation and farming to seeing man go to the moon and beyond. She helped raise me, in retrospect having more of an effect on me than I ever knew, even though I knew it was a lot.
She taught me about balance. From a very early age, I've been one who tended to put on and keep on weight very easily. Back when they had "husky" jeans, guess who wore them. Guess who didn't have a problem with that and also guess who didn't turn a blind eye. Grandma Dot was a professional caterer and the best cook in town. We ate well at our house, even if there was not a lot of money. We ate everything, from steak and shrimp when it was time for a treat, to biscuits and sorghum with a glass of milk for supper when it was time to pinch a few pennies. We always had a garden and always ate a lot of fresh and home canned vegetables and fruits too. Among many other things, I think a very important lesson that Grandma Dot tried to teach me, that I try to remember and live by is "all things in moderation". What wonderful words, and how hard to live up to, eh? They imply so much, the freedom to choose and to have what you like, coupled with the responsibility to find and live with.... moderation.
Now I brag. Tonight for dinner I will be having baked pasta with sweet Italian sausage, mozzerella, peppers, onions, fresh tomatoes and a portabella mushroom cap, cooked in a beautiful red sauce and a nice Merlot alongside when it is ready. There will be a green salad too. Grandma Dot taught me I could cook like this and eat it too, by example. But when I was growing up and showed "love handles", she would pinch them in her loving way and say, "you really don't need seconds, do you?" So as much as I would like, I won't be having a two pound portion of anything. One sausage and a medium helping of pasta will be it, along with the salad. This is my secret, if I have one. No denial of what to eat, only no gluttony allowed! For me, when put in those hard words, it is do-able and has been for some time now. Maybe that will help with someone here too. I hope so.
Tomorrow morning I will be on the bike at about 5:30 am since it is so hot in the daytime this week. She would like that I cooked this dinner and that I am also on the bike at 55.
God Bless Grandma Dot, I still miss her.