Talk about infrequent blogs - almost a year since my last post! No shortage of stuff to kvetch and kvell about during that time, though. Turned 85 in December - still writing my food columns, traveling and generally looking forward to every day.
Always nice to kvell about family - granddaughters: Miriam's bat-mitzvah, Sarah attending high school! Daughter, Professor Susan T. Avila will be Chair, Department of Design, Univ. of California at Davis starting July! Daughter Joan volunteering as tax advisor for people who need help in MD. Great kvell stuff.
Kvetch? State of Texas has a firm hold on idiot behavior....certainly would be nice if Wendy Davis could buck the old boys and become Governor.
And the kvetchy health care rhetoric - conservative/tea party garbage - goes on and on - I think if Obama offered a cure for every dread disease the pols would find fault. We should've extended Medicare to everyone - gradually, of course - but that would've messed up the money grabbing insurance companies. They stand to rake in bundles of dough from this health plan.
Biggest problem - most people don't know how to use the health system. Most pains and aches don't need doctors/tests/ medication. We've been primed to become fearful about our bodies - and rush for help at the drop of a hat. Required reading - any book by Dr. Nortin Hadler (MD from Harvard, now in North Carolina) Sobering advice for professionals and lay people.
Talking about reading - what is it with graphic artists who think it's easy to read narrow pale colored fonts on shiny red backgrounds or other stupid color combinations. What happened to easy to read black on white? And new cookbooks? Oy! I refuse to review one when I need a magnifying glass to read the ingredients.
Off to Chicago next week to the International Home and Housewares Show - surely the greatest show on earth for anyone who spends time in the kitchen and around the house!
And I'm excited about my 70th reunion - High School of Music and Art - graduated in June 1944! Wonder who will show up in June 2014. They all have to be of a certain age. Vamos a ver.
Always nice to kvell about family - granddaughters: Miriam's bat-mitzvah, Sarah attending high school! Daughter, Professor Susan T. Avila will be Chair, Department of Design, Univ. of California at Davis starting July! Daughter Joan volunteering as tax advisor for people who need help in MD. Great kvell stuff.
Kvetch? State of Texas has a firm hold on idiot behavior....certainly would be nice if Wendy Davis could buck the old boys and become Governor.
And the kvetchy health care rhetoric - conservative/tea party garbage - goes on and on - I think if Obama offered a cure for every dread disease the pols would find fault. We should've extended Medicare to everyone - gradually, of course - but that would've messed up the money grabbing insurance companies. They stand to rake in bundles of dough from this health plan.
Biggest problem - most people don't know how to use the health system. Most pains and aches don't need doctors/tests/ medication. We've been primed to become fearful about our bodies - and rush for help at the drop of a hat. Required reading - any book by Dr. Nortin Hadler (MD from Harvard, now in North Carolina) Sobering advice for professionals and lay people.
Talking about reading - what is it with graphic artists who think it's easy to read narrow pale colored fonts on shiny red backgrounds or other stupid color combinations. What happened to easy to read black on white? And new cookbooks? Oy! I refuse to review one when I need a magnifying glass to read the ingredients.
Off to Chicago next week to the International Home and Housewares Show - surely the greatest show on earth for anyone who spends time in the kitchen and around the house!
And I'm excited about my 70th reunion - High School of Music and Art - graduated in June 1944! Wonder who will show up in June 2014. They all have to be of a certain age. Vamos a ver.
