Author name: judyann dutcher

Sleep Fairy Tales

The ABC show Once Upon A Time is exploring shared dream experiences from when certain characters were under a sleeping curse. Sleep. Sleep Curse. The most popular sleep-related fairy tales are Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. There’s the Rip Van Winkle story and a score of even lesser known sleeping hero/heroine stories. How many times […]

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More than Plenty

And another couple of dishes I’ve tried from Plenty: Roasted parsnips and sweet potatoes with caper vinaigrette Rating: 4Note: Reduces down like caponata.Roasting takes a long time Surprise tatin Rating: 4 – my rating onlyNote: This takes a long time to make.I did NOT share this with my kids. These were time intensive but OMG

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Not a Holiday

Daylight Savings Time ended. I hate the time change. Biking very early in the morning is a bit risky because as the sun comes up, drivers get blinded by the sun and tend to hit cyclists. I like avoiding that scenario so I took off on a bike ride around the new 7:30. There’s a

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Magician’s Assistant

The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett reminded me of her State of Wonder in many ways. Both stories begin with the female protagonist experiencing the death of a close male friend. The protagonist believes she knows everything about her male friend but then a whole set of information comes to light which was previously unknown.

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Better than TV

UCSB’s Arts and Lectures educate, entertain and inspire. The title for a recent event was FIRST PERSON: SEEING AMERICA; Ensemble Galilei with Actors Bill Pullman and Lily Knight. This was pretty vague on what the experience would be. The topic “first person” had to do with personal letters, speeches and essays by individuals written in

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