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...Just a Minute...
by Jacqueline
Sewall Golden
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Edition
15
Yet more questions, snide observations and a new game and a new
trend.
- Is there an expiration date on fortune cookie prophesies?
- Often TV cameras are not allowed in courtrooms so various
media cover the event by providing a sketch artist. Why
on earth do they bother? The sketches produced usually
look absolutely nothing like the person they intend to portray.
In fact, they’re usually pretty grotesque.
- Why is it I can take a can of starter fluid, three weeks
worth of newspapers and whole boxes of matches to light a fire
in my fireplace but it only takes a discarded unlit match thrown
to the side of the road to start a million acre forest fire?
- How many types of salt do you have in your cupboard?
The salt craze has hit my home area hard, which is, of course,
the San Francisco Bay Area, which is, of course, the birthplace
of the more important trends, after which New York City gets
on board, followed by the rest of the nation. Red Hawaiian
tidal crystals, gray Celtic sea salt, damp French fleur de
sel, Aigues-Martes salt, Sicilian salt, coarse Portuguese
sea salt, ultra fine Japanese salt, kosher salt and rock salt.
I’ve got Sea of Iodized salt and some kosher for a rib recipe
that’s to die for. When I mentioned all the various types
that were available to the shelf-stocker at my local supermercado,
he gave me one of those looks only a 21-year-old can give to
a 60-something and fled.
- Then there’s the top-of-the-Yellow Pages fun. I found
House-Human in my Monterey County book, and Kitchen-Laboratories,
and Physicians-Pianos. I have entirely too much time on
my hands.
Jacqueline
Sewall Haines Blair Golden has, with one six-month exception,
when owning a ranch in in Oregon, lived her life in California.
A mother of two and grandmother of one, she is a freelance writer,
while not at work at her day job at an estate planning firm. Her
works have been published locally to great e-mail acclaim from
obviously intelligent folks.
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