Thursday miscellanea #270

• I believe Dylan Farrow. I appreciate her courage and admire her reasons for telling her story.
• We are not and never have been a clean-your-plate house. If a child doesn’t like the way something tastes, then he doesn’t have to eat it. But he has to try it. We require that the negative opinion be an informed one. And for things I’m pretty sure they’re going to like eventually, they must try it again periodically. As of last night, Aaron still doesn’t like squash.
• Speaking of, want to know the killerest, easiest way to cook yellow squash in the world? In a 2- to 3-quart microwave-safe dish, slice three yellow squashes and half to two-thirds of a white onion. Run a splash of water in it. Salt and pepper the top, put a pat of butter on, and cover. Nuke for nine minutes on high. Let stand for three. Serve. Eat that and then tell me you’d rather serve a can of green beans.
• About 25 years ago, I got snowed/iced in at my dad’s house with my stepsister Terri and her friend Tia. We bonded in a special way because we all smoked and we had ten Vantage Ultra Lights between us that wound up having to last 48 hours. I always remembered Tia fondly. When I ran into her maybe 10 years after that, we said hello and I went to hug her (absolutely a pastor’s wife hug and not a porno hug), and she wigged. I can still feel just as bad about that as I want to. I certainly didn’t intend anything untoward, Tia. I’m sorry.
• Alabama ran away with it yesterday—again. Tell me one more time how much you hate Nick Saban. Your jealousy is delicious.
• A “burger” has red meat on it. Period, paragraph. The terms “turkey burger” and “veggie burger” are abominations. “Burger” by itself means beef. With qualifiers, there are a couple more acceptable shades, like “bison burger” or “moose burger.”
• I have known two people who have been murdered. That freaks me out a bit when I consider it. One of them was my puppy love “girlfriend” in fifth grade. RIP. Do you have any murder victims in your mosaic?

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