Laura McBride
The Great British Bake-Off...and me
I have a couple of questions: How can one make tartare sauce without sweet pickles or sweet pickle relish? Why are even the ovens on The...
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Laura McBride
Dec 11, 20143 min read
Another gift, a poem: Hoar frost
Snow at Bray Shop, a hamlet near my home. (Wiki commons photo) I What is it, I wondered aloud, alone in my car, coming back from the...
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Laura McBride
Dec 8, 20141 min read
A gift of a story
Last week, I posted a poem from one of my books as a gift. This week, I'm offering a short story, a mystery of sorts, but it's too long...
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Laura McBride
Dec 2, 20144 min read
A gift of poetry
Sorry for the long hiatus. I was busy preparing our Muffin Dog Press tree for the St. Eustachius Christmas Tree Festival in Tavistock,...
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Laura McBride
Nov 18, 20142 min read
Sing, Sing, Sing
Last Friday night, we went to a concert at Cadogan Hall in London. What a wonderful place. Perfect acoustics. So much so that, except for...
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Laura McBride
Nov 3, 20143 min read
Stir-Up Sunday: It has nothing to do with football
Several years before Simon and I moved to England, we used to fly over for Christmas. About the second time we did that, my ex-husband,...
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Laura McBride
Oct 30, 20143 min read
Cultural Fungus
Deadly nighshade, a semi-beautiful but undesirable fungus. (Wiki Commons) This morning, I mentioned to Simon that a friend has posted...
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Laura McBride
Oct 23, 20142 min read
Pumpkin: Better with booze
There are only two kinds of people in the world: pumpkin haters and pumpkin lovers. I am of the latter. But it occurred to me, when I saw...
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Laura McBride
Oct 21, 20144 min read
Teach art or reap idiots. Our choice.
Pencil drawing, Renaissance Woman, c. 2013 by LH McBride It has been at least 30 years since a friend of mine, a maritime attorney in New...
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Laura McBride
Oct 19, 20142 min read
Poem: Henry's Manhattan
I There is something seductive about a cocktail glass, not a coupe, not the ones with rounded bottoms, used (wrongly) for champagne. A...
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Laura McBride
Oct 13, 20141 min read
Happy Columbus Day!
Here's a photo from the Columbus Day Parade in Plymouth. Plymouth, UK.
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Laura McBride
Oct 11, 20144 min read
Highly Sensitive People
Yes, that's me on Major Yeats in a "fun day" costume competition at Fox Hollow in Tennessee. We got a 4th. The costume was a couch and a...
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Laura McBride
Aug 27, 20144 min read
A Day in Manhattan with a Book and a Dog
When I was a relatively new freelancer, I was able to live in Manhattan by writing regularly for second-string publications—Income...
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Laura McBride
Aug 14, 20142 min read
Spam. A lot.
Sometimes, you just have to take a deep breath and admit something. In the mid-1970s, I once had an enormous craving for SPAM®. I...
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Laura McBride
Jul 29, 20143 min read
The Martini Diet
Like most writers, I have books perched conveniently near my writing desk. Some are purely for research; Kenneth Clark's Civilization,...
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Laura McBride
Apr 10, 20141 min read
Two Great Dogs in a Car Full of Death car
I love catalogues. This morning, for the hundredth time, I was looking through the Qwerkity.com catalogue. I came upon this tapestry...
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