Laura McBride
Panettone--breakfast of movie stars!
December 21, 2019 We've had a large panettone, still in its box*, on our kitchen counter for about two weeks now. It won't be opened...
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Laura McBride
- Sep 23, 2015
- 4 min
A messy desk signifies a creative mind
That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it. I spend a lot of time nattering at my husband, an engineer who works in digital ...
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Laura McBride
- Sep 22, 2015
- 1 min
Fully adult voters? Or puerile crybabies?
I might wonder, today, whether I should avoid honoring Mary Harris “Mother” Jones as a hero. Her beliefs suggest that I should. While she...
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Laura McBride
- Jul 27, 2015
- 6 min
Sandwich Wars
The sandwich, you might recall, was invented in England. It was supposedly created haphazardly as John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich...
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Laura McBride
- Jul 11, 2015
- 3 min
(J) Buffett was right all along
Intro to Fruitcakes by Jimmy Buffett "Take for example when you go to the movies these days, you know They try to sell you this jumbo...
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Laura McBride
- Jul 10, 2015
- 4 min
Enough with the aggressive nationalism already
I just saw a post on my Facebook wall that made me ponder something yet again: Why should one have to love America to live in it, and why...
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Laura McBride
- Jun 24, 2015
- 7 min
Bullies
I'm going to reframe something. And I'm going to tell you why. And I'm going to hope it sends anyone going through personal suffering—a...
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Laura McBride
- Jun 4, 2015
- 1 min
Poem: To Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher at Ronald Reagan's Funeral (Wiki Commons photo) To Margaret Thatcher, Alive and Dead Dear Mrs. Thatcher, you ruined...
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Laura McBride
- May 27, 2015
- 3 min
Rob, RIP
This is not what I meant to write today. I meant to natter on about one or more of the ridiculous juggernauts of today's corporate...
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Laura Harrison McBride
- May 12, 2015
- 5 min
British justice and "the Irish question"
There are two nations that it is probably impossible to write about―or even think or feel about―with any assurance one has anything at...
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Laura McBride
- May 11, 2015
- 4 min
Thought-power to vanquish what the greedy Tories have wrought
Today, I spent most of the day working on a Kindle Single about the recent UK election. It is not a funny book, not a humorous mystery...
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Laura McBride
- May 5, 2015
- 4 min
Training beer
Near Beer, also known as 3.2 beer. Blech! ("Tourtel Nearbeer" by KVDP - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons -...
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Laura McBride
- May 4, 2015
- 2 min
Al Fresco weds Used Carlotta
It's a punderful life. It must be; my husband's most frequent form of humour is the pun. I can tell when one's about to emerge; his lips...
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Laura McBride
- Apr 15, 2015
- 3 min
Four fruits and veggies to never eat
I just saw an online ad about the four fruits & veggies to never eat. My first question is this: do they mean four fruits and four...
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Laura McBride
- Apr 12, 2015
- 3 min
Night Train
It's a long way from Glendale, a section of New York City where single family homes line leafy streets, a place hemmed in by murderous...
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Laura McBride
- Apr 5, 2015
- 3 min
On Easter Day 2015
A gift, a poem of today, for today, to be included in my next anthology, out this summer. Meanwhile, please see Cow-Tipping and the Deep...
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Laura McBride
- Mar 29, 2015
- 3 min
Hot Cross Buns make me cross
Fair warning: Easter is my least favourite holiday on the entire Christian calendar. Indeed, my antipathy to Easter is one of the main...
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Laura McBride
- Mar 14, 2015
- 4 min
Irish Beach Spaghetti
A version of this was first published Tuesday, July 27, 2010, on my blog Workable Food. When most people cook at the beach, it's hot dogs...
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Laura McBride
- Feb 24, 2015
- 2 min
A teaser from the second Shelf Barker mystery
Shelf is in Key West. Don't ask. Just figure that in his second excursion as a reluctant PI, he had to be someplace. Someplace that...
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Laura McBride
- Jan 27, 2015
- 6 min
Snow in NYC? You ain't seen nothin'
The biggest issue for cities with snowstorms is this: Where are you going to put all that snow? NYC carts it off to barges and dumps it...
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