Lost In Translation For July
My monthly Italian cooking email ,always so poetic looking to me :
Gentile Signora April,
arriva una nuova moda: il partager, ovvero tanti piccoli assaggi da scambiare con chi vi sta accanto. Gualtiero Marchesi ha cambiato la ristorazione italiana: ecco dove sono finiti i suoi "discepoli". La scuola di pasticceria continua con le meringhe da preparare nella versione a caldo e a freddo, per i dessert più friabili e delicati. E per chi ama i sapori piccanti, il pepe: vi spieghiamo per ogni varietà con che cibo va abbinato, per ricette salate ma anche dolci.
Buona lettura
Alta Vista Babelfish translator claims it says this:
Kind Mrs. April,
arrives one new fashion: the partager, that is many small assays to exchange with who are next. Gualtiero Marquises has changed the Italian ristorazione: here where its "disciples" are ended. The school of continuous pastry shop with the meringhe to prepare in the version for warmth and cold, for the friabili and delicate desserts. And for who it loves the piccanti sapori, the pepper: we explain to you for every variety with that food goes bound together, also for sweet salad recipes .
Good reading
Tuesday's Fresh & Fruity Farmer's Market Haul
Berry stained gal
It's all good 
Food Inspector Soph
So delicate Could It Be Nearly 2000 Days Gone By
...and yet I feel none the wiser.
Well, maybe just a bit.
Yesterday marked year five of widowhood for me .
My husband of 20 years was found stabbed to death in his office around 7 PM on Sunday July 14 ,2002.
He had been dead for almost 2 hours.
There is still no one in custody for this crime, despite FBI involvement .
The seconds,mi nutes, hours, days, weeks,months and years that have ensued have been hard , sad and scary.
So far we've made it as gracefully as one can after surviving a tragedy.
I am no longer in the clutches of deep grief and haven't been for at least 3-4 of those years , but I think about him , and our love at least once a day.
You just never think someone you love will die at the hands of another.
I have been searching for who I am as a woman of a certain age who married fresh out the box of her teen years.
I like myself , and it's taken many years to feel that about myself.
He use to be my biggest fan, now I am my own.
Our relationship wasn't perfect ,as no relationship is, but at the end of a day his face , his love
and our connection carried me through to the next .
To live without his physical presence has been extremely hard.
Yes , he resides inside my head and heart but on some days that just wasn't enough.
These days I remember him with a sense of melancholy and am amazed to have made it this far without a total breakdown, anti-depressants or copious amounts of booze.
I am not against recoupling , and I honestly thought that by now I would have gone on at least one date ( grits teeth) , but the timing just hasn't been right yet.
I've been working on me , on being ok with me.
Whimsy in the Shape of a Hot Pink Fish Windsock
We went to volunteer at a local library yesterday.
We won't hear for a few weeks whether we've been accepted or not , but we took the time to walk around this grand older New England building with multiple turrets that turned out to be studying/sitting alcoves inside.
As I looked out over the grounds from the second floor , a hot pink and white fish shaped windsock fluttering wildly over a restaurant and in between the trees caught my eye .
I only had my phone camera with me , but you can see it if you look really hard just above that roof ...
Ms Excitement
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My Daughter the Artist
Strawberry Spirit
She's mainly an illustrator,but has been branching out to acrylics.Her latest creation was inspired by some particularly delicious local strawberries.She's also a young adult fantasy writer working on her first book (50 K words and 265 pages), she's getting ready to send it out to literary agents .
Here's hoping her story makes it to print !