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I am all atwitter this weekend.  A new movie theater opened in our area.  Actually, it is the same movie theater, under new management.  The last one closed in December, after a slow slide to ruin.  We did our best to patronize the local establishment, but it was sometimes difficult to love.  Movies were almost […]

I’ve been away for a while again.  Sorry.  Writing.  The website needs updating, as does the blog.  Soon, there will be excerpts, giveaways, a newsletter… All singing, all dancing, and redesigned. But I am back here now because something happened this weekend that was totally blog worthy. No, not that.  Or that, either.  Something else. […]

And Happy New Year! This year, at Casa de Dos Quesos, the gifts of the magi are Pepto Bismol, hand sanitizer and bleach wipes. Despite the fact that we are not sure how many of us can safely enjoy it, I am cooking symbolically again this year, in an effort to stay in the mood […]

This year, for Christmas, I am replacing the nativity scene. The one we’d been putting up was something I bought when I was still a teenager, with cornhusk dolls and little wooden animals I’d picked up in an import store. It is heavy on the cute, heavy on the folksy, and good for a family […]

Today, it is snowing. I live in Wisconsin. It is December. Snow should not be a surprise. And so far, this is not the spirit lifting, fluffy Christmas card snow. Yesterday had the occasional icy flakes that tell you Fall is gone and is not coming back. Today is the sort of thin flurry that […]