Richard W Black
Richard W Black is a freelance writer.
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How to Really Celebrate Thanksgiving

11/29/2013

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Set up the Christmas tree and decorations, catch up with family members, eat a little turkey dinner then...?  If you said shop, you were wrong.  You curl up and sleep off the meal while the game plays in the background.  Yep, Calvin knows how to celebrate Thanksgiving.
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Experimental Baking

11/27/2013

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It is in this holiday season that we pause for a word of warning.  I decided to make my famous brioche then had an idea.  Why not add chocolate chips.  I mean, what cannot be improved by chocolate, right?  However, the bread machine I use to mix the dough warms just a little to help the yeast alone.  Unfortunately, it also warms enough to melt chocolate chips.  The end result was a chocolate dough and a taste not quite what I wanted.  I am hoping that my non-experimental apple pie turned out better.  We will see tomorrow when we cut into it.
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November 20th, 2013

11/20/2013

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So sad, so sad!  I just finished off the last morsel of Chocolate Charlie, a delectable chocolate/marshmallow/peanut treat made exclusively in South Bend, Indiana.  Mom gave me a box when I was visiting her last weekend.  It reminds me of one of my favorite cookies, the Mallomar, a cookie with a graham cracker base, filled with marshmallow and covered with chocolate.  When it was first developed, the Mallomar could only be made during the cool months of the year because it would melt during transportation and on the store shelves in the warmer months.  However, even after the invention of refrigeration for storage and transport and the climate control in stores, the makers of this delightful treat decided to continue the tradition of making it exclusively between September and March.  The marketing ploy works to perfection.  The cookie routinely sells out as addicted fans horde it away in their freezers for the lean months.  So check your grocer’s shelves, the Mallomar will only be on them a few short months.  That is the way of what people see as valuable, they seek it when they can and guard it away carefully when it is not readily available.  Hum, I see a spiritual principle here…

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A Tribute...

11/18/2013

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A Tribute to Mom;
Some sit and complain when their days draw shorter.  Others curse God for giving them so few of them.  But then there is one who remembers that her days on this Earth are merely a stopover to a better place and lifts up prayers for those she loves and those who love her that Heaven might be a very crowded place indeed.


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Sometimes, It's Hard To Be Funny

11/14/2013

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Working on another Zero Hero episode and after writing eight of them all ready, I find it is hard to be funny without repeating old gags and jokes.  There are those occasions when a writer just has to power through and put something on paper - or the computer.  Then the rewrite process begins in an attempt to make the story humorous.  Yeah, right now I am stalling by writing this little ditty until the funny stuff comes to mind.  Yep, sometimes it is hard to be funny.  It is almost like work...

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Raymond and Juliette

11/8/2013

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Every good story starts with an idea however small and incomplete.  I have found that some of my best storylines begin with a short story that is then given more flesh as the characters are explored for their depth.  I give you such a potential story, one that I might someday take further.  It started with a thought; two people meet while climbing the steps to the Eiffel Tower.  What happens to them that makes their lives so special that a reader might want to delve further?  If you would like a few moments of pleasure reading, check out their story on my website under the tab of Raymond and Juliette.  It is just a rough idea at the moment but see if it brings a smile, maybe a small tear to your eye.

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    "To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, 'If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.'"  John 8:31-32

    "Context is everything in life."  Richard W Black

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