Margaret's Blog
Talk of Artificial Intelligence and how it will “take over the world” has terrified us. And it should make us think. Do we really want this?
The coronation is behind us, not that many in the U.S. were waiting breathlessly when it was before us. But it is to be acknowledged, if not universally, that it…
A few years ago, a group of women gathered together in Phoenix to begin a new group supporting the arts in our state. We had formerly been a group in…
It looked like a piece of fluff on the floor. In the evening the light was dim, I didn’t have my glasses on and I picked it up. A piercing pain…
What’s an archive? It is a repository for the original documents of history. Not just the President’s papers and classified information, but letters, notes, and photographs that record the lives…
I’ve just returned from a visit to my family in Australia. Early settlers there may have made this simple campfire bread. “Damper” as it is called, was made by the…
On my bookshelf is a 50-year-old cookbook. Its pages are falling out of its ring-bound cover, and some of the pages are stained and ripped as if a toddler had…
The population of Ireland is tiny relative to other countries. In 2022, it numbered just over five million people.*
Camilla, my caterer heroine in Lipstick on the Strawberry, has her orders full for Valentine’s Day.
One of my favorite gifts this Christmas was a calendar. A wall calendar called “Backyard Foraging.” Hostas, dandelions, lilac, and daylily are among the plants common to many a garden.
February, the shortest month of the year starts at midnight. Groundhog Day, which heralds the end of winter in the Northeast, is February 2nd.
January 16th is the birthday of a son of mine. He is lucky to have a public holiday on his birthday, and for that, we thank Martin Luther King.