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According to Yahoo, “Pork and Sauerkraut” is the #3 most searched item this morning.

I’m wondering what cultural or culinary zeitgeist is sweeping over the nation right now.

Updated: Tracy has kindly informed me that pork and sauerkraut are lucky New Year’s foods—at least to the Pennsylvania Dutch. I did not know this. […]

My Dear Susie Clemens,

From:

Palace of St. Nicholas In the Moon Christmas Morning

Here is a charming letter Mark Twain wrote to his daughter, Susie, one Christmas morning.

I’m no Yamazaki Sokan

A haiku I wrote is a finalist in Shannon’s snow-themed haiku contest.

A CD player is on the line.

If you like mine, vote for it before Monday morning! If you don’t like it and think it puts the ancient Japanese poets who developed and perfected the form to shame, vote for the […]