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Flag Day for the Redd Family

June 14, 2023

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June 14, 2023 Dear Arkady,  Today is Flag Day and the birthday of Maggie Pamelia Shaw Redd, my great grandmother. Florance Gail Redd and Maggie Pamelia Shaw Redd were also married on June 14, 1885. I didn’t know her. She died when my father was eight years old (and his brother, your great Uncle Dale) […]

Appreciating Canadians

June 10, 2023

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Light & Dark

June 10, 2023

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In spring of 1992, my ex-husband, Rick Bunker got the call that his mother had died — at 53 from that from which only alcoholics die — an esophageal hemorrhage. Rick had been estranged from his mother and continued not to be on speaking terms with her even after he himself got sober.  I tried […]

What is a collograph? (What is a collagraph?) by Richard Redd

June 8, 2023

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Everybody knows what painting is. The artist dips a brush or other method of application into a liquid with pigment in it, and transfers the color onto the surface of paper, canvas, plaster—or the wall of a cave. An entirely different way of putting pigment onto a surface, a collagraph is printed from a cardboard […]

Rabbit in the Slow Cooker

June 6, 2023

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from Storied Meals: A Life in Food 1 whole rabbit cut into pieces cleaned (or cut into pieces)  4 pieces of bacon cut into half and fried until crisp  1 large red onion cleaned and coarsely cut in eighths  1 tomato 2 stalks of lovage or celery sliced into ¼ rings/pieces.  2 or 3 small […]