White Chocolate Lavender Berry Scones

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Eating My Way Through the Holidays. Festive Food Gifts: White Chocolate Lavender Berry Scones! Butter and Buttermilk, two main ingredients that lasso the moon. This is not your ordinary pastry. It’s not a doughnut. It’s not a muffin. It is a flavorful raised vessel for smearing on more butter. Granted, the American version may be filled with fresh fruit and chocolate chips, but hey, it’s all good. And since I was doing it my way, I went one step further and added a lavender glaze on top. There’s no way I’m going to be accused of making a dry-as-dust scone. I’m living with a man who conjures up that image whenever he hears the word “scone”. I believe for now, I’m okay with him thinking that way. More for me!

WHITE CHOCOLATE LAVENDER BERRY SCONES

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups flour

1 tablespoon sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon…

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Jolly Monday Before “The BIG DAY!”

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Well, folks, it’s almost here … that’s right, Christmas is just 5 days now and if you still have shopping to do, I would suggest you grab a snack and head on out that door NOW!!!  For the first time ever, all my shopping and wrapping are done, thanks to daughter Chris and granddaughter Natasha who have done double duty to make up for my lack these days!  Perhaps I should have let them take over years ago!!!  I’m still planning to cook a turkey … the girls brought home a 24-pounder yesterday and he is thawing in the fridge as we speak!  And now, to start this busy week off on the right foot, Joyful has baked up some holiday treats and Jolly went on a hunt for some fun ‘toons, so grab a bite to snack on and find something to smile, chuckle, or even laugh about before…

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Lê Vĩnh Tài | Justice (17) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

Lê Vĩnh Tài, an acclaimed Vietnamese poet, born 1966 in Buon Ma Thuot, Daklak, Vietnam. The retired doctor is still a resident of the Western Highlands, an acclaimed businessman in Buon Ma Thuot. Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Lê Vĩnh Tài | Justice (17) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

Writing process and plot hole notes…

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This is a note  from my novel journal for Book I of my historical fantasy WiP: Who By Fire.

I’m still in need of more knowledge about my protagonist, even though this information will never go into the novel: who in the heck are his parents?

He doesn’t know, because he has never, to his memory, met them.  But this will make a tremendous difference in his life, so it’s part of the unwritten (or not included in the novel, rather) back story that must be known.  Like an adopted person, it will hang over his head.  Or will it?  Does that lack of knowledge really have to affect a grown person?

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how knowing, or not, who your parents are makes a difference, and how historical fiction, and story in general, may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or…

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Un minuto, un día, un año más

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Un minuto, un día, un año más en mi vida. ¿Qué hice en ese lapso, mientras caminé, acaso sin darme cuenta, por las estaciones de la primavera colorida y perfumada, del verano lluvioso, del otoño con sus ráfagas de viento y del invierno helado? Un minuto, un día, un año más en mi vida. Pasaron tan rápido, entre un suspiro y otros más, los pedazos de mi existencia, que apenas me di cuenta de que uno, bien o mal, se traslada del cunero a la tumba, del anuncio del nacimiento al aviso de la defunción, y que si alguna ocasión la textura es tersa, otra vez, en cambio, se marchita. Aprendí que la vida y el tiempo son indiferentes si se les disfruta y experimenta o si se les olvida en un cajón empolvado o se les omite. Un…

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Clarice Lispector

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” Vou continuar, é exatamente da minha natureza nunca me sentir ridícula, eu me aventuro, entro em todos os palcos.”

Clarice Lispector

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Marii Freire Pereira

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Imagem: Theatro da Paz/ Belém do Pará/Brasileirissimo/ Meta.

Foto: Fernando Sette-Câmara

Santarém, Pa 19 de dezembro de 2021

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